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This event will be the third in a series of groundbreaking conferences held at Oxford and aimed at reconsidering the histories of indigenous medicine. Historical links between Africa and Asia have long been recognised, including the spread of humoral medicine from the Mediterranean to South Asia and eastern and southern Africa from antiquity; the long-term evolution of Swahili medicine as an Asian/African hybrid; the spread of Portuguese Catholic ideas about the body and healing from the coasts to the hinterlands of southern Africa and South Asia; and the diaspora of African ngoma healing in the Old and New Worlds. The conference's focus will be on types of indigenous medicine and on geographical areas previously underrepresented in the literature on medicine and healing.
2-Day Conference - 15-16 September 2005
To be held jointly by Wellcome Units for the History of Medicine, Universities of Oxford and Manchester
Venue: Osler-McGovern Centre, 13 Norham Gardens, Oxford
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