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Accepted Paper
Forgetting Alma Ata
Pino Schirripa
(University of Messina)
Paper long abstract
After Who assembly in Alma Ata lot of efforts had been made in attempting to integrate therapeuticallocal knowledge and biomedicine, especially in concrete project.
Yet today the local knowledge seems to be marginalized on advantage of biomedicine.
The paper will start from a critical evaluation of some of this experiences to try to understand if there is still room for an integrated approach and how it could be thought in a larger idea of integration.
Local knowledge and its (non-)integration in ‘formal’ education institutions [initiated by the Grup d'Estudi de les Societats Africanes/Barcelona, University of Ilorin, MITDS, Bolgatanga]
Session 1