SSHM ANNUAL CONFERENCE

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

17 - 18 July 2000

Medicine - Magic - Religion

This conference aims at a re-assessment of the boundaries and intersections between medicine, magic and religion in the light of

The conference brings together historians and social scientists working on the development of medical theories and practices during different periods of time and within diverse cultural contexts.

For registration details and/or abstracts contact:

wer@soton.ac.uk
Dr Waltraud Ernst
Department of History
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ.

Bookings should arrive no later than 1 April 2000. You are advised to register in time as the conference venue can only accommodate a maximum of 180 participants.

Participants will include

Berel Dov Lerner (Israel): "The philosophical debate on magic and religion"

Peregrine Horden (UK): "Magical healing in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages: the question of accessibility"

David Harley (USA): "Medicine, magic and religion: are they really different?"

P. J. Martyr (Australia): "Magic and the occult in Australian nineteenth-century healing"

Judith Raftery (Australia): "Indigenous Australians, Religion and Health"

Claudia Liebeskind (USA): "Medicine and miracles: hakims, sufis and healing, India from c. 1800 to 1950"

Warren M. Cochran (Australia): "Ancestors and demons: religious conviction and the development of Chinese medical epistemology"

Angelika Messner (Germany): "Explanations and practices regarding madness in Chinese medical history"

Shang-Jen Li (UK): "Miraculous surgery in a heathen land: medical missions in nineteenth-century China"

Rosemary Fitzgerald (UK): "Piety and Physic: women, medicine and missions in colonial India, 1860-1914"

Anne Digby and Helen Sweet (UK): "Medics, magic and missionaries: nurses as culture brokers. South Africa, c. 1900-1960"

Julie Parle (South Africa): "Witchcraft or madness? The 'Amandiki' of Zululand, 1894-1914"

James D. Alsop (Canada): "Distant locales and sovereign remedies in the British Imperial experience, 1550-1800"

Ed VanMaire (UK): "Indeterminate boundaries between 'science' and 'tradition' in British herbalism"

Christina Harrington (UK): "Healing in twentieth-century Pagan witchcraft: medieval Galenic medicine revived"

Zeljko Dugac (Croatia): "Ex-voto offerings: uniting religion, magic and medicine"

Nadav Davidovitch (USA): "To save science from materialism - Homeopathy and Swedenborgianism in early twentieth-century America"

Rhodri Hayward (UK): "Demonology and medicine in Edwardian Britain"

Ralph Drayton (USA): Learned medicine, astral magic, and popular religion in the later Middle Ages: the case of astrological talismans at the University of Montpellier"

Lea Olsan (USA): "Charms and prayers in medieval medical practice"

Peter Murray Jones (UK): Devotion, power and protection - amulets in late medieval medicine"

Iona McCleery (UK): "Friar Giles and the Devil: Medicine and magic in medieval Spain and Portugal"

Rebekka Von Mallinckrodt (Germany): " Religious and medical lines of argumentation in seventeenth-century self-help books"


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From: "Waltraud Ernst" <wer@soton.ac.uk>
Subject: Konferenz: SSHM Annual Conference: "Medicine-Magic-Religion"
Date: 09.03.2000


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