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SUMMARY:Good practices in rural landscapes: J. Entrican and the rediscover
 y of indigenous medicine in colonial Burma - Atsuko Naono (School of Orien
 tal and African Studies)
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CONTACT:Leon Rocha
DESCRIPTION:Until the end of the 1910s\, colonial medicine generally ignor
 ed Burmese indigenous medical practices in rural villages\, making little 
 effort to understand not only the rich medical/healing systems at work\, b
 ut also Burmese attitudes and behaviour related to health and medical prac
 titioners that would have otherwise explained the resilience and \npopular
 ity of indigenous medicine among the indigenous population of the countrys
 ide. I examine how this view began to change within part of the \ncolonial
  medical establishment in particular among outlying and isolated civil sur
 geons such as Dr James Entrican by looking at his personal reports informe
 d by his experiences in the rural villages and district headquarters in Up
 per Burma. These and other personal papers reveal how much a changing awar
 eness of the importance of local culture to rural health contributed to hi
 s growing interest in Burmese medical practices that would have been ignor
 ed by the previous generation of colonial medical officers and by his cont
 emporaries in Rangoon and Calcutta.\n\nSpeaker Biography: Dr Atsuko Naono 
 received her PhD in History from the University of Michigan in December 20
 05. Dr Naono served as a research assistant and as an associate fellow at 
 the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick until 
 October this year and is currently a Research Associate at the Centre for 
 Southeast Asian Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Her
  book\, _State of Vaccination: the Fight Against Smallpox in Colonial Burm
 a_\, was published \nin 2009 by Orient Blackswan as part of the New Perspe
 ctives in South Asian History Series.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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