Call for Papers: African Health and Illness, 03/05

CALL FOR PAPERS

"AFRICAN HEALTH AND ILLNESS"
March 25-27, 2005
University of Texas at Austin

We are pleased to announce a three-day conference
centered on the theme of African Health and Illness. We welcome papers that pose medical, cultural,
sociological, methodological, and theoretical questions whether addressing relevant, recurring and urgent
issues or raising neglected topics.

Papers are welcomed on virtually all topics and themes, irrespective of time, period and space, as well as
interdisciplinary perspectives. Among the themes of interest are the following:

• Ailments and treatments
• Illnesses and their meanings
• Administration of hospitals, gov't programs, bureaucracy
• Recovery methods
• HIV/AIDS
• Healing methods (traditional, western, spiritual)
• The "big pharma" and other MNCs
• Globalization and health
• Sustainable health
• Poverty and illness
• The role of NGOs
• Psychosocial affects and effects
• War and trauma
• The body and space
• Famine and other un/natural disasters
• Local, national and global politics
• History of illnesses (e.g., malaria, TB, etc)
• Contagion and containment
• Images of illness
• Epidemiology
• Health as a profession: caretakers, caregivers, providers, provisions
• Autobiographies of health and welfare

The conference will encompass a wide range of
disciplines and perspectives. Participants will be
drawn from the United States, Canada, and elsewhere, including European and African countries. Graduate
students are encouraged to attend and present papers. Selected papers from the conference will be published in book form.

The deadline for submitting paper proposals is October 1, 2004. Proposals should include a 250-word abstract along with the author's name, address, telephone,
email, and institutional affiliation. All
correspondence for this conference will be conducted via email. Please address all inquiries and submissions to Mr. Matthew Heaton at the e-mail address given
below. (cc Toyin.falola @mail.utexas.edu).

Matthew M. Heaton
History Department
Garrison Hall, B7000
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78712

Email: mattheaton@mail.utexas.edu
Visit the website at http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa

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