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