Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni”Follow the link for further particulars. The deadline for paper proposals is 1 April 2018.
Religions and Medicine
From Antiquity to Contemporary Age
June 5-6-7-8-9, 2018
Velletri (Rome)
Call for Papers
In the contemporary Western world, medicine constitutes a specific branch of
knowledge, with its own characteristics and methods of cure and research, and it’s
tendentially autonomous, not linked with religious or folklore beliefs, even though
there are still some contacts, reciprocal influences and conflicts. In the past, however,
these spheres were more reciprocally interconnected than it appears to us nowadays.
The conference aims to investigate this interconnection in a multi-disciplinary
perspective, as regards both medical procedures and the definition of human body. ...
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