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From Western Medicine to Global Medicine: The Hospital Beyond the West
Location: United Kingdom
Call for Papers Deadline: 10-11-2003
This path-breaking conference will bring together researchers and scholars
working on hospitals in a Non-western context.
It will examine the emergence and reception of hospitals in places as wide-
ranging as South Asia, Southern Africa, Iran and South America.
The conference will address diverse themes and issues such as:
* Hospitals and the global emergence of Western medicine
* Hospital Architecture
* Medical pluralism and non-Western medical practices and practitioners
* Dissemination of medical knowledge including new specializations,
research and medical education
* Patients’ perceptions and experiences
* Urban and rural medical provision
* Missionary medicine
* Politics and Governance
This conference will enhance an understanding of the politics and interplay
of race, class, gender and the environment in the making of a global
medicine. The conference proceedings will be published and will contribute
to a rethinking of the existing paradigms of colonial medicine
Please send abstracts of no longer than 500 words to the address below, no
later than the 10 NOVEMBER 2003
Contact information:
Belinda Whitty
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
45-47 Banbury Road
Oxford OX2 6PE
Phone: +44(0)1865 274600
Fax: +44(0)1865 274605
Email: [log in to unmask]
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