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Transcultural controversies
Lecture Series 2011
With accelerating globalization, scientific
and therapeutic paradigms are transferred
ever more quickly between cultures and
nations. This means not only that they
are adapted and transformed with increa-
sing rapidity, but also that there are more
frequent situations where paradigms and
techniques from one milieu do not fit else-
where. Controversies ensue for a number
of reasons; for example when "imported"
paradigms and techniques are thought to
be culturally inappropriate, scientifically
unacceptable, or economically unfeasible.
In this lecture series, prominent scientists
from Heidelberg and abroad examine the
role of globalization in creating – and sol-
ving – such controversies.
Lecturers in transcultural
controversies
Prof. Kalinga Tudor Silva
(Colombo):
Health and the development industry
Prof. Annelies Wilder-Smith
(Heidel-
berg): Emerging infectious diseases:
culture, environment and hysteria
Prof. William S. Sax
(Heidelberg): Traditi-
onal mental health therapies
Prof. Dr. Andreas Kruse
(Heidelberg):
Transcultural controversies in gerontology
Nazli Balkir
(Heidelberg): Healing the
Soul: spirituality and religion in psycho-
therapy
Dr. Stefan Ecks
(Edinburgh): Mind food:
medicating moods in Calcutta
Prof. Einar Wilder-Smith
(Heidelberg):
Transcultural aspects of epilepsy
Public health in South Asia
Program of a joint seminar series of the South Asia Institute (SAI) and the Heidelberg
Institute of Public Health (HIPH) 2011
01/2011 Local and global health
Bo Sax and Rainer Sauerborn,
Hans Rosling: TED seminar - film
projection
02/2011 Addressing corruption in the health sec-
tor: Securing equitable access to health
care for everyone
Dr. Cornelius Oepen, German
International Cooperation (GIZ),
Eschborn
03/2011 Health impact of and policy response
to natural disasters in India - research
results from a collaborative EU FP6 project
Revati Phalkey, candidate
Dr. sc. hum.
05/2011 Health impact scenarios for South Asia Rainer Sauerborn, HIPH
05/2011 Adaption strategies at the household,
community and government level in South
Asia
Urvashi Chandra, PhD, United
Nations Office for Project Services
(UNOPS), Dehli; Aminul Haq
06/2011 The James Grand School of Public Health,
BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh:
achievements and perspectives
Tim Evans, Dean, James Grant
School of Public Health, BRAC
University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
07/2011 Lifestyle Diseases in South Asia
Constanze Weigl, SAI; Florian
Neuhann, HIPH