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DESCRIPTION:Although Silhak (Confucian) scholars had been studying and expe
 rimenting with foreign medical ideas since the 17thc and were modulating K
 orean healing practices\, modern medicine in Korea continues to be dated i
 n the Severance Hospital system at the end of the 19th century.  Similar f
 usion and integration evident in China’s native physicians who blended m
 ind-body practices (Tai Chi) with new (Western) ideas are lost to the hist
 ory of modern medicine as conventionally narrated. As healing ideas and ma
 terials were exchanged around maritime circuits\, Ajar princes in Iran sys
 tematically incorporated “modern” science into their repertoire\, and 
 Africans were continuously involved in the circulation of medical ideas th
 at presaged and contributed to modern medicine.  By the mid-19th century\,
  young men and women from around the world were studying medical sciences 
 at imperial institutions\, graduating to practice as physicians\, nurses\,
  technicians\, and dispensers. Yet others acquired medical competences thr
 ough apprenticeships\, even as native systems adapted to the flow of medic
 al knowledge. Globally\, medical expansion\, including training\, infrastr
 ucture\, technology\, and public health coincided neatly with European col
 onialism and historiology\, which began to report modern medicine as racia
 lly European. The dominant account of modern medicine situates it in Europ
 ean culture from where it was introduced or imposed on others.  \nThe impl
 ications of the dominant narrative are evident in the denial of historical
  agency of non-Western medical practitioners and in the enduring racism of
  modern medical culture which continues to reduce non-Western healing syst
 ems under labels of traditional\, alternative\, biomedicine\, etc.\, in a 
 bid to authenticate racial designation. The articles in this panel invite 
 a decolonization of the historical narrative\, by rendering how ideas of m
 odern medicine evolved almost contemporaneously in different parts of the 
 world and in a continuity of the global circulation of ideas from before E
 uropean colonization.
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LOCATION:Room 204 PC Desk (Seats 30)
SUMMARY:Boundaries of Decolonization: Towards of a Global History of Modern
  Medicine - Oluwatoyin Oduntan\, Jonathan Roberts\, Suk Gabriel Choi
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/RVXUYV/
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