ArticleInternational journal of law in context2022
Enacting a depoliticised alterity: law and traditional medicine at the World Health Organization.
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- Policy text analysis on inheritance and innovation of Mongolian medicine culture in China.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Easier Said than Done: The Politics of Medical Integration.Asian bioethics review · 2026Article
- Everyday Healthcare Regulation: British Newspapers and Complementary and Alternative Medicine.Social & legal studies · 2024Article
- Traditional Healing and Law in Contemporary Senegal: Legitimacies, Normativities and Practices.Social & legal studies · 2023Article
- In the shadow of the healing rainbow: belonging and identity in the regulation of traditional medicine in Mauritius.Griffith law review · 2023Article
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Abstract
This paper interrogates the depoliticising effects of a seemingly neutral regulatory drive at the heart of the World Health Organization (WHO)'s promotion of traditional medicine. Emerging at WHO in the late 1960s against a political backdrop of decolonisation and pan-Africanism, traditional medicine has continued to be promoted in subsequent decades, culminating in the latest global Traditional Medicine Strategy (2014 to 2023). Yet WHO's promotion and acceptance of traditional medicine have also become increasingly conditional upon its standardisation and regulation - something that appears fundamentally at odds with traditional medicine's heterogeneity. Drawing on insights from critical law and science and technology studies, we suggest that such a process at WHO has done more than simply disqualify the toxic and the dangerous. Rather, it has implicitly and explicitly marginalised and excluded those aspects of traditional medicine that deviate from scientific, biomedical ways of seeing, knowing and organising.
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