Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine

From Western Medicine to Global Medicine: The Hospital Beyond the West

18-19 March 2004 - Osler-McGovern Centre, Green College, University of Oxford, 13 Norham Gardens, Oxford

Organisers: Mark Harrison, Margaret Jones, Shruti Kapila and Helen Sweet, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford

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.

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