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SUMMARY:International Workshop: Medicine as a Medium of Multiple Modernitie
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DESCRIPTION:Wissenschaftliche Vorbereitung: Heiner Fangerau (Ulm), Alfons L
 abisch ML (Düsseldorf), Christian Oberländer (Halle/Saale)Medicine focuses 
 on the most recent scientific findings and techniques while at the same tim
 e it is a practice deeply interwoven in the everyday live of people. Thus m
 edicine can serve as a medium that mirrors on one hand, complex scientific,
  technical as well as economic processes and on the other hand, adaptation 
 to these social processes in the everyday lives of people. From the perspec
 tive of globalization, it is the aim of this project to explore and create 
 knowledge to understand current issues of globalization by examining proces
 ses of modernization through the focus of medicine. This specific approach 
 promises valuable insights when processes of globalization and modernizatio
 n are examined in different countries, regions, institutions or disciplines
 . For the purpose of comparison, the regions of Europe and East Asia will b
 e selected. However, historical comparison is not the research goal in itse
 lf but only a heuristic instrument. Germany, Japan and China will be at the
  centre of attention because modernization in these three countries occurre
 d in different periods while being in a key relationship of interdependence
  when transferring modern medicine from Europe to East Asia and within Asia
 . With the selection of these two regions and three countries, the diverse 
 exchange and transaction of ideas between Europe and Asia in different area
 s of knowledge and activity will be the focus of investigations. In terms o
 f historical periods, investigations will concentrate on the time of the in
 troduction of modern scientific medicine in the late 19th and early 20th ce
 nturies. The concept of 'multiple modernities' by Shmuel N. Eisenstadt is t
 he theoretical approach of this project. It allows to explain processes of 
 modernization by looking at contingent historical events and thereby to cap
 ture the environment and the intentions of historical actors - it is, as Wo
 lfgang Knöbl says - "contingency sensitive". The idealtypischen constructs 
 of certain ‘levels’ or ‘zones’ of modernity proposed by Eisenstadt are far 
 from real social configurations or even historical detail. However, this pr
 oject will contribute right here by studying historical transfer processes.
LOCATION:Halle (Saale)
DTSTAMP:20251112T170935Z
DTSTART:20110309T230000Z
DTEND:20110311T230000Z
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