{"id":1403,"date":"2014-08-11T22:41:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T01:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2014-08-14T16:14:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T19:14:57","slug":"european-knowlege-and-local-medical-practices-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/european-knowlege-and-local-medical-practices-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"European knowlege and local medical practices in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kapil Raj, associated professor at the \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, will lecture at Fiocruz next Thursday, August 14h. \u00a0The seminar \u00a0&#8220;Making a Portuguese-Language Herbal Speak: &#8216;Local&#8217; Knowledge and the East India Company in 18th-Century India&#8221;, will focus on the construction of science and knowledge in intercultural encounters.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1415 alignright\" style=\"margin: 3px;\" title=\"Kapil raj\" alt=\"RAJ FACE\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/RAJ-FACE-300x300.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/RAJ-FACE-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/RAJ-FACE-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/RAJ-FACE.jpg 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>European knowledge, especially medicine, is usually presented as being &#8220;scientific&#8221; as opposed to the &#8220;empirical&#8221;, local practices of non-European peoples. It is thus a commonplace amongst historians to consider that the former has rejected the later during European colonization.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kapil Raj, a preliminary investigation about Portuguese language on herbs in Malabar Coast, India, in the mid 18th century reveals that \u00a0local medical practices interacted with European knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Besides demonstrating the crucial role of intercultural exchange, Raj&#8217;s research also \u00a0contributes to the understanding of the commercial, administrative and diplomatic practices of the European East India Companies on the Malabar coast during this period. \u00a0Kapil Raj is also the author of\u00a0 <i>Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650-1900<\/i>\u00a0\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>Information:<br \/>\nThursday, August 14<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">10 AM<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Room 407 \u201cPr\u00e9dio Expans\u00e3o\u201dAvenida Brasil, 4036 \u2013 Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro &#8211; RJ<br \/>\n<\/span>(21) 3882-9095, historiasaude@coc.fiocruz.br<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kapil Raj, associated professor at the \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, will lecture at Fiocruz next Thursday, August 14h.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[59,65,64,63],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover","category-news","tag-colonial-rule","tag-ficruz","tag-india","tag-local-knowledge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions\/1407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}