Researcher in Medical History: Extension of application date

We have decided to extend the call for applications to the researcher post (see below). You can still hand in your documentation by the 15th of september.

Lukas Meier

An interesting project on the history of the Swiss Tropical Field Laboratories in Africa is currently beeing researched by Lukas Meier.
This is an invitation to him, to see whether he is interested in joining the blogging community?

Researcher post

For a Ph.Diss study on the history of Elim Hospital in the northern part of South Africa, we are currently looking for a researcher. It is a certainly a nice post in a dynamic research environment.

Researcher in Medical History of Africa

Within the research project "History of Health Systems in Africa" there is an open position for a PhD researcher.

Job description: Complete a study in fulfilment of a PhD at the University of Basel on the history of Elim Hospital in the Limpopo province of South Africa. The period covers 1899-2000. Work closely with at least two other colleagues in a project on the history of (Swiss) mission hospitals in Africa (Agogo in Ghana and Ifakara in Tanzania). Participate in senior seminars and a small amount of teaching.

Deadline for application: 15 August 2008

Further information:
http://www.unibas-zasb.ch/english/news/2008/07/HHSA.php

Proceed with this blog?

Dear reader, in what form this blog is going to be continued is not yet decided. It has been created as a test.

The latest news about my own research process is:
I am currently transcribing a series of interviews with Karl and Irmengard Schöpf recorded last week.
I am planning a series of further research and writing activities in August. Details on the results are going to be published here.

VAD/SGAS Conference

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.

HHSA Main project started

Since may 1 the main project of HHSA has started.