International Workshop
“Making India a Global Healthcare Destination.
Historical and Anthropological Enquiries on Cross-border Healthcare”
Karl Jasper Center for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg
14-15 June 2009
This event is co-organised and co-funded by the Cluster of Excellence “Asia & Europe”, University of Heidelberg and the French Institute of Pondicherry (Unit 21 CNRS-MAEE)
Object: The Indian therapeutic landscape is produced both within and increasingly beyond the national boundaries of the country. The global circulation of therapeutic techniques and practices, medical knowledge and procedures, patients and therapists, all fashion healthcare in India. These multiple flows also have an impact on the way healthcare is thought, practiced and experienced in Europe. Specialized health and wellness institutions incorporate ‘Indian therapies’ in their menu, together with fragments of the subcontinent cultures. The participants to this workshop will explore these issues along three main, interrelated axes: transnationalisms, cultural encounters and the transformations of therapeutic practices; labour migration and the health tourism industry; and the global construction of India.
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Programme
Colloques, Journées d'études
30/12/14
du 01/04/12 au 31/03/13
