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| Title: | International scientific conference and workshop: Collecting Folk Medicine Objects | |
| Dates: | 20 - 23 June 2007 | |
| Venue: | Zagreb, Croatia | |
| Organizers: | The Division for the History of Medical Sciences of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts & Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb | |
| Contact: | tbzufika(at)ffzg.hr | |
| More info: | http://konferencije.ffzg.hr/cfmo/ | |
| Attachment: | 
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| Summary: |
The main focus of the conference will be collection, preservation, restoration, conservation, processing, presentation and valorization of the objects from folk medicine as well as recent scientific research of traditional medical systems and of customs connected with notions of illness and health in different medical cultures of Europe. The conference will also aim at presenting the most important collections of objects of traditional medicine from Europe and United States of America and the problems the scientists and museum workers encounter in collection and research of such objects. Special attention will be given to Croatian collections, not only from the field of folk medicine, but also from the history of medicine in general, such as collections containing objects which were used in teachings of medical sciences. The workshop accompanying the conference will present various procedures and processes of restoration and conservation of folk medicine objects. |
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05.- Cultural Heritage |
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