[Note] “Materialities of Medical Cultures in/between Europe and East Asia” First Workshop
Date: Thursday, March 14th, 2019
Venue: Conference room 701, 7F, Research Building, Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Co-organizers: T-G(Materialities of Medical Cultures in/between Europe and East Asia) project of IHP and Research Group of the History of Health and Healing of IHP, Academia Sinica
Agenda
Session Ⅰ
Presenter: Chun-fang Chang, PhD Student, Department of History, National Taiwan University
Disease maps and nosogeography in China: The diseases of China: includingFormosa and Korea(1911).
The Diseases of China contains a large number of impressive illustrations, including 5 colored plates, 11 disease maps, and 360 illustrations in the text. What I am going to talk about is the 11 disease maps, especially the first one－the “noso-geographical divisions” of China.
Presenter: Fong Jiun Shen, PhD Student, Department of History, National Taiwan University
Malaria Control of Malcolm Watson in British Malaya.
This paper aims to reveal the story of the malaria control of Malcolm Watson (1873–1955), a British medical officer and planter’s doctor to Malaya from 1900 to the 1920s.
Presenter: Hsu, Kai-hsiang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
Antidotes on Sale: A Case Study of the Medicine Fair in Da shengci Temple, 1111-1118
This paper examines supply and demand of an antidote in Chengdu. According to Tie wei shan cong tan 鐵圍山叢談, an antidote caused the attention in the “medicine fairs” (yaoshi 藥市) close to the Da shengci temple during 1111-1118.
Session Ⅱ
Presenter: Chang Che-chia, Associate research fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
The “meetings of medical substances” of the Edo period
In this paper, I would focus on the inventor Hiraga Gennai’s （1728 1780） activities and his writings based on the meetings Butsurui hinshitsu (writing Evaluating and Classifying Materials, 1763).
Presenter: Chen, Hsiu-Fen, Professor, Department of History, National Chengchi University
Food, Drug and Dirt: Material Culture of the Placenta in Ming China
My paper is not only aimed to disentangle Chinese complex towards the placenta as food/drug/panacea in terms of materia medica and material culture. It will also reveal the complexities of the placenta religiously perceived, medically processed and secularly consumed in Ming China.
Session Ⅲ
Presenter: Shang-Jen Li, Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
Healing and Observation: James Henderon’s Medical Practice in Shanghai
Focusing on James Henderson’s medical missionary work, this project explores two issues, viz., the medical problems related to a prospering treaty port as recorded in his reports and his introduction of tropical hygiene to China.
Presenter: Yu-chuan Wu, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
Body, Labour, and Self: The uses of Work in Morita Therapy
Presenter: Wen-Hua Kuo, Professor, Graduate Institute of Science, Technology, and Society, National Yang-Ming University
Resetting the bodily social for drugs: a vital experiment on aging, fragility, and end of life
This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the last journey of life from a perspective that echoes the recent STS scholarship concerning drugs and the human condition drugs create.
Session Ⅳ
Presenter: Lu Shao-li, Professor, Department of History, National Taiwan University
Medicinal plants in Agriculture Experiment Stations: Bio-exchange and resources control between Taiwan and Japanese Empire
This study would encompass the following four themes:
1.What is the process of investigation and classification of medicinal resources within Taiwan and Japanese empire?
2.How to transplant and promote medicinal plant into farmland in Taiwan, and how to cooperate it with the pharmaceuticals industry.
3.What is the relationship between the promotion of medicinal plants and the research theme of“tropical medicine” which concomitantly emerged during the Japanese expansion into Southeast Asia?
4.What is the influence of this transplantation of medicinal plants to the agricultural landscape of Taiwan? Did it transform the episteme of plants rooted on Bencao (Honzo, 本草) which within Japanese and Taiwanese shared, and what was the reaction of colonial society towards this novel material?
Presenter: Sean Hsiang-lin LEI, Associate research fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
Dr. Tsungming Tu and Scientific Research on Materia Medica in Transnational Contexts
By way of situating Dr. Tu’s research program in multiple international contexts of science, this project will show the concrete ways that he intended to create multiple methodological breakthroughs for world scientific community in conducting research on traditional East Asian medicine.
General Discussion
