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The Benevolent Dragon? An analysis of China's health diplomacy to Africa (1964 - the present)
6 March 2013
Wednesday 13 March 2013, 5.
Transnational history lecture and seminar with Dr Paul Kadetz, Global Health, Arizona School of Health Sciences.
Abstract
The
practice of health diplomacy aims to prioritise the health care aspects of
humanitarian aid as a mechanism for political economic negotiations between
donor and recipient nations. Existing research concerning health diplomacy has
neglected to assess the context-appropriateness of the health care aid
transferred, the manner in which health diplomacy is implemented, and the
political and economic ideologies embedded in such transfers. Using these
criteria, this presentation examines how health diplomacy may be understood
with the specific case study of Sino-African health diplomacy over the past
sixty years. China's health diplomacy is contrasted with examples of that of
the US in order to assess whether the former constitutes a distinct alternative
to the normative health diplomacy of the 'global North'.
Biography
Paul
Kadetz is an Associate of the China Centre for Health and Humanity at
University College London and is on the faculty of the Global Health programme
of the Arizona School of Health Sciences in the US. He completed his DPhil in
Development Studies at the University of Oxford. He also completed a MSc in
Medical Anthropology at Oxford and holds a MPH in International Health and
Development; a MSN as an Adult Nurse Practitioner; and a MSOM in acupuncture
and herbology. Paul served as an external expert researcher for the Traditional
Medicine Unit of the Western Pacific Region Office of the World Health
Organization and assisted in the development of the current strategy for
Traditional Medicine for the Western Pacific Region. Paul has conducted
research on health care and integrative medicine in China, Cuba, Guatemala, the
Philippines and in Post-Katrina New Orleans. He is currently studying the
long-term epidemiological effects of drone technology on children.
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Location
SBO1, Seminar Room 3,
Bentham House, 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens, WC1H 0EG.
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