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I am a specialist in South Asian history looking for specialists in other world areas to participate in a panel to be held at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in January 2011 (Boston, MA). If you are willing to contribute a paper, please reply to me off-list at <catobr01@luther.edu>. The panel title and abstract are as follows: Panel title: Superstition, Science, and the Making of the Veterinary Profession Panel abstract: Historical accounts of the emergence, in colonial settings, of veterinary medicine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries often describe the process as a cog in the larger machinery of colonial expansion or as a form of heroic missionary work ostensibly separate from the political enterprise of colonial rule. However, accounts of the eighteenth-century separation of veterinary medicine from human medicine (and related fields) in Europe tend to overlook the ways in which veterinary surgeons had to compete with other skilled workers over access to the care of animals in settings both urban and rural, civilian and military. In both European and colonial contexts, veterinary professionals and often government officials validated their own “scientific” knowledge by casting existing veterinary knowledge systems as “superstition.” The papers in this panel explore the trajectories of this process in specific historical contexts, in order to create comparisons that will allow us to draw some broad conclusions about themes such as the relationship between discourses of science and religion, science and the state, and imperial metropoles and peripheries. Brian P. Caton Department of History Luther College 700 College Dr. Decorah, IA 52101 U.S.A.
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