[csaa-forum] cfp HEALTH AND BORDERS IN CHINA, INDIA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN REGION

[Meredith Jones]

CALL FOR PAPERS

HEALTH AND BORDERS IN CHINA, INDIA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN REGION

Organizers: China Research Centre and Indian Ocean and South Asia 
Research Network, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Event date: 28-29 October 2009
Venue: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia
This workshop will examine the idea of health and borders, including 
international borders and domestic/internal borders in China, India the 
Indian Ocean region. It aims to explore issues related to the 
globalization of health services (such as medical tourism), medical 
professionals and the flows of international medical standards, as well 
as the movement of disease across borders and between urban and rural 
settings. It will also aim to examine health inequities arising from and 
within borders, due to economic imperatives, changing technologies and 
environments.
This workshop seeks papers exploring lessons learned and new ways of 
understanding health and international and internal borders, with 
specific reference to the cases of China India, and other countries in 
the Indian Ocean region.
Postgraduate students and Early Career Researchers (ECRs) are strongly 
encouraged to submit abstracts.
Theme areas
• Medical tourism
• Movement of skilled medical personnel
• Movement of disease
• Rural-urban inequities in health
• Social determinants of health and their relationship to borders
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: FRIDAY 29 MAY 2009
To submit abstracts and for more information contact: 
Beatriz.Carrillo at uts.edu.au

KEY NOTES:
Professor Laurent Pordié (University of Heidelberg)
“Making India a Global Health Care Destination: A Social Study of 
High-Tech Hospitals and Neo-Oriental Spas”
Professor Shaoguang Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong and 
Tsinghua University)
“China’s health system’s reform”
Professor Michael Pearson (Adjunct Professor at the University of 
Technology, Sydney)
“The History of Medicine in the Indian Ocean”

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