This conference has been a success. Featuring a "forum" on "bioethics" and a panel on "health on the move" it has strengthened the HHSA project. In general we have again brought together scholars from both medical and social research into a discussion on ethical, historical, and methodological issues. Relating to the historical focus of the HHSA project, the presentations by Walima Kalusa (University of Zambia, Lusaka) and Helen Sweet (Wellcome unit for the history of medicine, Oxford) as well as the one by Esthelle Kouakam Magne (Université de Provence) have all shown how former missonary medical endeavours have been transformed in the second half of the 20th century. Not least, we have agreed that the history of these institutions keeps to influence much of their services, as well as the health policies in broader terms.
For more information on the conference papers, please contact marcel.dreier((at))unibas.ch.
Papers read in the missionmedicine-historical section were entitled:
- Walima T. Kalusa: From an Agency of Cultural Destruction to an Agency of Public Health: Transformations in Catholic Missionary Medicine in Post-Colonial Zambia, 1964-1982.
- Helen Sweet: Rural Healthcare: racial borders and boundaries. Medical and nursing relationships and experiences in rural South Africa c.1915-1975.
- Esthelle Kouakam Magne: Healing bodies without souls? The social and institutional identities of Medical Mission services in a changing health system - the case of Cameroon.
Dienstag, 20. Mai 2008
Sonntag, 4. Mai 2008
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