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May
5
2017

Medical Cultures, Traditions, and Law

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MLC May 2017 Conf

When: Friday, May 5, 2017
4:00 PM - 6:45 PM CT

Where: Harris Hall, The Leopold Room, Harris 108, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Cost: $0
All are welcome to attend.

Contact: Natasha Dennison   (847) 491-3525

Group: Global Medical Cultures and Law (Buffett Institute)

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

The faculty conveners of the Global Medical Cultures and Law Research Group have joined forces to examine three phenomena over the long 20th century: the globalization of biomedicine, the codification of traditional medicine, and the constitutive role of the law in these processes.

SPECIAL EVENT  presented by the Global Medical Cultures and Law Research Group at the Buffett Institute

May 5-7, 2017 | Medical Cultures, Traditions, and Law

Friday, May 5 | 1881 Sheridan Road . Harris Hall 108 . Evanston Campus

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4:00 – 5:45PM | KEYNOTE DIALOGUE

“Intellectual Property, Debt, and Traditional Knowledge"

MADHAVI SUNDER
Law, University of California Davis

CHIDI OGUAMANAM
Law, University of Ottawa

CHAIR HELEN TILLEY
History, Northwestern University

 

5:45 – 6:45PM | KEYNOTE RECEPTION

 

Funded by the Buffett Institute for Global Studies in support of its Global Medical Cultures and Law Research Group


with co-sponsorship from
The Science in Human Culture Program
The 2016-2017 Klopsteg Seminar Series in Science in Human Culture

 

image credit: The Citadel of Drugs, Franco Assetto, 1955

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