{"id":25,"date":"2018-03-13T09:25:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T09:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/medicalknowledges\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2021-05-13T15:40:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T14:40:47","slug":"25-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/lawmedicalknowledges\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lead\">\n<p>This 5-year Wellcome Investigator Award (2017-2022) explores the regulation of traditional and alternative medicines, in Europe and Africa, historically and in contemporary contexts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It interrogates the challenges that regulators face in determining the boundaries of legitimacy in healthcare, and how to organise practices that fall outside of biomedicine. Our approach is socio-legal and cross-jurisdictional<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-241 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/medicalknowledges\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2125\/2018\/07\/iStock-5160442002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/lawmedicalknowledges\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2125\/2018\/07\/iStock-5160442002.jpg 480w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/lawmedicalknowledges\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2125\/2018\/07\/iStock-5160442002-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It focuses on three sub-regions (and six case studies) where policy conversations have been particularly intense, and current regulatory systems remarkably varied: Western Europe (France\/England); West Africa (Ghana\/Senegal) and the West Indian Ocean (Mauritius\/La Reunion).<\/p>\n<p>The project\u2019s key goals are to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Critically assess the effects of contrasting regulatory frameworks on traditional and alternative medical practices, and their position in public health systems<\/li>\n<li>Consider how regulation can address the challenges raised by traditional and alternative medicines in a fair, effective and sustainable manner<\/li>\n<li>Foster new conversations across academia and policy on relevant experiences, strategies and ways forward<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-220\" src=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/medicalknowledges\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2125\/2018\/07\/ctaherbs212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/lawmedicalknowledges\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2125\/2018\/07\/ctaherbs212.jpg 800w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/lawmedicalknowledges\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2125\/2018\/07\/ctaherbs212-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/lawmedicalknowledges\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2125\/2018\/07\/ctaherbs212-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 5-year Wellcome Investigator Award (2017-2022) explores the regulation of traditional and alternative medicines, in Europe and Africa, historically and in contemporary contexts. It interrogates the challenges that regulators face in determining the boundaries of legitimacy in healthcare, and how to organise practices that fall outside of biomedicine. Our approach is socio-legal and cross-jurisdictional. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":757,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/lawmedicalknowledges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/lawmedicalknowledges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/lawmedicalknowledges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/lawmedicalknowledges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/757"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/lawmedicalknowledges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/lawmedicalknowledges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/lawmedicalknowledges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/lawmedicalknowledges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}