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Day one: Thurs, 2nd November 2006
8:30 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 – 9:05 Housekeeping (Kevin White)
9:05 – 9:20 Launch by Prof Ian Chubb EO, Vice Chancellor,
ANU
9:20 - 10:40
Chair: Elizabeth Coleman
Cultural /Spiritual Understandings of Global Health Issues
Keynote address by Maurice Eisenbruch, Victoria University
Tea break - 10:40 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Session I: Historical Reflections on the Body, Religion
and Medicine
Chair: Elizabeth Coleman
"In the Spirit of Men
There is no Blood": Descartes' Physiological Writings and
the De-sacralisation of the Body
Richard Paul Hamilton, University of Notre Dame
"Beyond Description":
Religious and Medical Representations of Breast cancer in 17th
century France
Therese Taylor, Charles Sturt University
Painful Paradoxes: Consumption,
Sacrifice and Man-Building in the Age of Nationalism
Christopher E. Forth, The Australian National University
Lunch - 12:30 - 1:30
1:30 - 3:00
Session II: Contemporary Western Medicine, Religion
and the Body
Chair: Maria Suzette Fernandes Dias
Paradigm Switching: Medical
Intuition in a Postmodern Society
Ruth Barcan, University of Sydney
Subtle Anatomy: The Bio-metaphysics
of Alternative Therapies
Jay Johnston, University of Sydney
Afternoon tea - 3 - 3:30
3:30 - 5:00
Session III: An Indigenous Perspective on the Sacred
Chair:
Contested Sites: Aboriginal Health
engaging Western Medicine
Brian F McCoy, La Trobe University & Gregory Phillips, Melbourne
University
Day two: Fri, 3rd November 2006
9:00 - 10:30
Section IV: Healing and Ritual
Chair:
Different Medical Bodies and
Knowledge(s): A Re-consideration of Refugee Health Care
Judy Singer, Southern Cross University
Moments of Grace and Blessing:
Rites and Rituals in the Process of Healing
Fr Roy O’Neill, Chaiplancy Services, Randwick Hospital
The Body and the World in Buddhism
Peter Freidlander, La Trobe University
Tea break - 10:30 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Section V: The Sacred Body, Organs and Transplantation
in Cross Cultural Perspective
Chair: Elizabeth Coleman
Who Should Care for the
Body?
Jeremy Shearmur, The Australian National University
Regulating the Muslim Body
Roxanne Marcotte, University of Queensland
Lunch - 12:30 - 1:30
1:30 - 3:00
Section VI: Death, Medicine and Religion
Chair:
Limitations in Death
Philomena Horsley, University of Melbourne
Günter Von Hagen's World
of Bodies
Brian Murray, Loyola College
Freezing Sacred Man: Myth, Philosophy,
and Medicine's Practice of "Curing"
Peter Arnds, Kansas State University
Afternoon tea - 3 -3:30
3:30 – 5
Religion, Virtue and Ageing – The Social Implications
of the Life Extension Project
Keynote address by Brian Turner, University of Singapore
Chair: Kevin White
5:30 : Launch of Negotiating
the Sacred: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society
(edited by Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Kevin White)
by Prof John Warhurst, School of Social Sciences
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