Third
conference of the Asian Society for History of Medicine (ASHM)
Theme:
Health
and Medicine in History: East-West Exchange.
2-4
November, 2006
Committee
Room,
New
Delhi-110067
2nd November (Thursday)
2006 Session 1: Committee
Room, SSS-I
9.30a.m. -10.30a.m.
–
INAUGURATION
Welcome and Theme Introduction : Deepak Kumar
Inauguration : Shizu Sakai, President ASHM
Keynote Address
: David Arnold,
Remarks
from Chair – B.B. Bhattacharya, Vice-Chancellor, J.N.U.
Vote of Thanks - A. K. Mohanty, Chairperson, ZHCES
10.30a.m. -11.00a.m. - HIGH TEA
11.00a.m. –12.00p.m. : Session
2 : Reflections on a Craft : Doing
The History of Medicine
Chair : Mark
Harrison (
Waltraud Ernst : Locating
Social History of Medicine in
(
Jayanta Bhattacharya: Anatomical
Knowledge and the Anatomy of
(Uttar Dinajpur) Medical
Knowledge: Some Preliminary Inquiries.
12.00p.m. to 1.30p.m. : Session
3 : The
Tropics as a Trope
Chair : Biswamoy Pati (
Sunil Amrith : Health
and Sovereignty in the New
(
Jong-Chan Lee
(
A
Geo-Historical Perspective
Isabel Amaral: Continental
Drift: A Discussion of the Tropical
(
1.30 p. m. – 2.30 p.m.: LUNCH
2.30 p.m. – 4.00 pm. : Section A :
Session 4, Committee Room SSS-I.
Mental
Health and Psychiatry
Chair : A.K.
Mohanty (JNU)
Christiane Hartnack: :Synergies of Indigenous and Imported Aspects of
(
Amit Ranjan Basu : Disciplining
Psychiatric knowledge in Colonial
(Kolkata)
Akira Hashimoto : Home Custody of
Mental Patients in Modern
(Aichi-ken)
4.00 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. : Tea Break
4.30 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. Section A : Session 4 Continues
Chair :
Osamu Nakamura : Family
Care of Mentally Ill Patients in Iwakura,
(
Interaction
with the West and of the Changes of
Livelihoods.
Akiko Ito : The
virtue of uselessness – The Rise and Fall of
(
2.30 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.: Section
B : Room
No.001, SSS-I,
Session 5
: Traffic and
Translation Between East and West
Chair : Jiang Sheng (
Barbara Wilhelmi : Christus Medicus – and the
Nestorians: The West-
(
5th
and 9th Century CE
Chen Ming : Glimpse
into the Medical Practices of Nestorians
(
Vivienne Lo : From
the Land of the Indian King: Tibetan
(
4.00 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. Tea Break
4.30 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. : Section B : Session
5 continues
Chair : Jender Lee (
Aerin Peijung
Chiang: :Comparative Study on Views of Formation,
(
Medicine
V. Gayathri : Vaidyas and Physicians: A Spotlight on Medical
(
5.30 p.m. :
Day Closes
3rd November
(Friday) 2006 , Section
A (Committee Room, SSS-I)
9.30a.m. – 11.00a.m. Session 6 : Theorizing
Epidemics
Chair : Dhruv Raina (JNU)
Neshat Quaiser : Unani’s Construction of Plague Epidemic in
(
Sanjukta Das Gupta: The Santal Conception of Disease in
(Kolkata) Colonial
Harish Narain
Das : An Indigenous Theory
of Epidemics in Twentieth
(
11.00 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. : Tea
Break
11.30a.m. – 1.30 p.m. : Session 7:
Perceptions and Practices of Health
and cure
Chair : Poonam Bala (
Bina Sengar : The
Health Practices of Tribals in
(
Kavita Siva- : Indigenous
Medical Practitioners and Plague
ramakrishnan Politics
in Urban Punjab (1898-1910)
(
Khaled Fahmy : To
Whom Does the Body Belong? Reflections
(
Hugh Shapiro : The
Anatomical Logic of Twentieth Century
(
1.30 p.m
- 2.30 p.m. : LUNCH
2.30 p.m.-4.00 p.m. : Session
8 : Handling
Tuberculosis, Plague and
Small Pox
Chair : Aditya Mukherjee (JNU)
Sanjoy Bhattacharya :Competing Visions, Disparate Practices: The
(
Approach
Towards Small Pox Eradication
Amna Khalid : Plague
Policy and Governance in
(
Arbinda Samanta
: Negotiating
Subalternity in Everyday Life:
(Burdwan) Popular
Perception of Tuberculosis in Colonial
4.00 p.m.-
4.15p.m. : Tea
Break
4.15 p.m.-
5.45p.m. : Session
8 Continues
Chair : Khaled Fahmy (
Ihtesham Kazi :Trepidation of Tuberculosis in
(
B. Eswara Rao :Tuberculosis Sanatoria and Institutional Practices
(Chennai) in
the
Liew Kai Khiun : For
the Most Energetic of R
(
Alcohol
in the Royal Commission on Opium,
1893-1895.
5.45
p.m : Day Closes
3rd
November (Friday) 2006 : Section B
: Room No. 001, SSS-I
9.30
a.m. – 11.00 a.m. : Session 9 : Translations
and Transformations
Chair
: Akira
Hashimoto (Aichi-Ken)
Jiang Sheng : Daoism
and the Understanding of Human Body
(
Shang-Jen Li : Discovering ‘the
secrets of long and healthy life’
(
Che-chia Chang : Shimizu
Usaburo’s Study of the Japanese
(
Pharmacological
Traditions
11.00 a.m. – 11.-30 a.m. :
Tea Break
11.30 a.m. – 1.30 p.m. :Session
10: Stigmata : Studies on
Leprosy
Chair : Jo
Robertson (
Shubhada Pandya : An
Indigenous Leprosy Therapy in a Colonial
(Mumbai) Context:
The Rise and Fall of Hydnocarpus
Oil in
Late Colonial
Chandi P Nanda
: The Leprosy Patient
and Society:
(Sambalpur) & Colonial
Orissa, 1870s-1940s
Biswamoy Pati
(
Angela Ki Che
Leung: Social
Perceptions of Patients of Leprosy in
(
Masanao Makino : On
the History of Leprosy Prevention Law and its
(
1.30 p.m. – 2.30 p.m.: LUNCH
2.30 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.: Session 11 : Medicine and the Bodies of
Women and Child
Chair : Arun Bandyopadhyay (
Sujata Mukherjee : Western
Women and Imperial Medical
(Kolkata) Intervention in
B.K.Choudhary : Vulnerability
of Women to Bacillus: Myths and
(Benaras) Reality
in Colonial
Indira Chowdhury : Delivering
the ‘murdered child’: Infanticide,
(Mumbai) Abortion and Contraception in Colonial
4.00 p.m. – 4.15 p.m.: Tea Break
4.15 p.m. – 5.45 p.m.: Session 11 continues
Chair : Rama Baru (JNU)
Seiko Ishitani : Critical
Contribution of Sanitation Infrastructure
(
Samiksha Sehrawat: Funding
for the
(
Medical
Philanthropy and Indigenous Response
Madhuri Sharma : Exploring Universal
Panacea: Reflections in
(
5.45 p.m. :
Day
Closes.
4th November
(Saturday) Section A : Committee Room, SSS-I
9.30 a.m. – 11.00 a.m. : Session 12 : Encounters and Adaptations
Chair : S.
Irfan Habib (NISTADS,
Ishrat Alam : European
Physicians in Medieval
(
Feza Gunergun : From
Quinaquina of “Quinine law”: A Literary
(
Hormoz Hormazd : Western
Physicians in 19th Century
(
in Local Context
11.00 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. : Tea
Break
11.30 a.m. – 1.30 p.m. : Session 12 Continues
Chair : V.V.
Krishna (JNU)
Mark Harrison :
From Bazaar Medicine to Hospital
(
Empire,
1750-1800
Sajal Nag : Medical
Encounter in North
(Silchar)
Rohan Dev Roy : Beyond
East-West?:
Medical Manuals and
(
Otniel E. Dror : ‘Voodoo
Death’: Fantasy, Excitement, and the
(
1.30 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. : LUNCH
4th November,
(Saturday) Section – B Room No.001, SSS-I
9.30 a.m. -11.00 a.m.` :
Session 13 : Collaboration and Localization
Chair : Mohan
Rao (JNU)
Poonam Bala : Identifying
the Impact: Medicine and Indigenous (
Pratik Chakrabarti : Western
Collaborations and Eastern Public Health:
(
Y.Madhavi & : The
Place of R&D in Indian Pasteur Institutes:
Dinesh Abrol : Understanding
the Colonial Roots of Under-
(
11.00 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. : TEA
Break
11.30 a.m. – 1.30 p.m. : Session
13 Continues
Chair : Amarjeet Sinha (Ministry of
Health, GOI)
Nandini Bhattacharya: Disease and its
Management in a
(
Luca Gabbiani : The
Making of a Healthy Environment:
(
“New
Policies”
Ishii Kayoko : Re-Evaluation
of Traditional Medicine with
(
Evelyn Bernette Ackerman : Rare Cases in
(
1.30 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. : LUNCH
2.30 p.m. – 3.30 p.m. : Session 14
Summing
up and Valedictory
Chair : Amitabh Kundu, Dean, SSS/JNU
Valedictory Address : Harold Cook (UCL,
Vote of Thanks : Harish Naraindas (JNU)
3.30 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. : General Body Meeting
of ASHM
4.30 p.m. : Tea
Third conference of the Asian Society
for the History of Medicine (ASHM)
Theme: Health and Medicine in History: East West Exchange.
2-4 November, 2006
Committee Room,
New Delhi-110067
List of Participants
S.No. |
Name |
Address |
e-mail address
/ contact no. |
Title of Paper |
Country |
Remarks |
1.
|
Christiane Hartnack |
|
christiane.hartnack@donau-uni.ac.at |
Synergies of Indigenous and Imported Aspects of Mental
Health Care in the Context of India’s changing Political Structures in the 20th
Century |
|
|
2.
|
Ihtesham Kazi |
|
swarna_kazi@yahoo.com |
Trepidation of Tuberculosis in |
|
|
3.
|
Chen Ming
|
Associate Professor Research Centre for Eastern Literature & the
Department of Oriental Languages and Culture, |
aryachen@hotmail.com |
Glimpse into the Medical Practices of Nestorians in
Medieval |
|
|
4.
|
Jiang Sheng |
Director, |
|
Daoism and the Understanding of Human Body |
|
|
5.
|
William Cheung Hoi Ngai |
Research Scholar |
hoingai@hotmail.com |
|
|
|
6.
|
Luca Gabbiani |
Assistant Professor Institute for Political Studies, |
The making of a healthy environment: local administration
and public health in “New Policies” |
|
|
|
7.
|
Barbara Wilhelmi
|
Rittershausstrasse 8, D-61231 Bad Nauheim, |
Wilhelmi.BN@t-online.de Ph.D-(0)6032-88081 Fax: D-(0)6032971047 |
Christus Medicus – and the Nestorians: The West-Eastern Transfer
of Medical Knowledge Between the 5th and 9th Century
CE. |
|
|
8.
|
Amit Ranjan Basu |
Independent Researcher Social Psychiatry, BE 318, Kolkata-700064 |
amitrbasu50@yahoo.co.in 033-2334 9805 |
Disciplining Psychiatric knowledge in Colonial India |
|
|
9.
|
Indira Chowdhury
|
Consultant Archivist |
Ph. 091-22-22782560 |
Delivering the ‘murdered child’: Infanticide, abortion
and contraception in colonial |
|
|
10. |
Jayanta Bhattacharya |
TULSITALA P.O. Raiganj, Dist. Uttar Dinajpur, |
drjayanta@gmail.com |
Anatomical Knowledge and the Anatomy of Medical
Knowledge: Some Preliminary Inquiries |
|
|
11. |
Madhuri Sharma |
Research Scholar, CHS/ SSS, JNU, |
Ph. 9891317862 |
Exploring Universal Panacea: Reflections in Indian Print
Media, c-1900-1950 |
|
|
12. |
Arabinda Samanta |
Department of History, |
Negotiating Subalternity in
Everyday Life: Popular Perception of Tuberculosis in Colonial |
|
|
|
13. |
Neshat Quaiser |
Department of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia, |
Unani’s Construction
of Plague Epidemic in Colonial India |
|
|
14. |
Chandi P. Nanda Biswamoy Pati |
|
cpnanda@rediffmail.com Mobile no. + 981-0634526 |
The Leprosy Patient and Society: Colonial Orissa, 1870s-1940s |
|
|
15. |
Nandini Bhattacharya |
UCL, |
ucgansb@ucl.ac.uk |
Disease and its Management in a |
|
|
16. |
Pratik Chakrabarti |
|
pratik.chakrabarti@history_of_medicine.oxford.ac.uk |
Western Collaborations and Eastern Public Health: The
Pasteur Institutes in |
|
|
17. |
Ishrat Alam |
Dept. of History, AMU, |
European Physicians in Medieval |
|
|
|
18. |
Sanjukta
Das Gupta |
History Dept., |
The Santal Conception of
Disease in Colonial |
|
|
|
19. |
Dhrub Kumar Singh |
CHS, JNU, |
|
|
|
|
20. |
Radha Gayathri |
ZHCES, JNU, |
|
|
|
|
21. |
Savitri Das Sinha |
NMJI, AIIMS, |
Savitrisinha21@gmail.com |
|
|
|
22. |
Harish Narain Das |
CSSS, JNU, |
harish-naraindas@uiowa.edu |
An Indigenous Theory of Epidemics in Twentieth Century |
|
|
23. |
Bina Sengar |
Dept. of History, |
binasengarca@yahoo.co.in |
The Health Practices of Tribals
at |
|
|
24. |
Sajal Nag |
Dept. of History, |
Medical Encounter in North |
|
|
|
25. |
Shubhada Pandya |
Mumbai |
shunil@vsnl.com |
An Indigenous Leprosy Therapy in a Colonial Context: The
Rise and Fall of Hydnocarpus Oil in late Colonial
India |
|
|
26. |
Deepak Kumar |
ZHCES/SSS, JNU, |
deepak_jnu@yahoo.co.in |
|
|
|
27. |
Irfan Habib |
NISTADS, |
irfan@nistads.res.in |
|
|
|
28. |
Dhruv Raina |
ZHCES/SSS, JNU. |
d_raina@yahoo.com |
|
|
|
29. |
Rohan D’Souza |
CSSP/SSS, JNU, |
|
|
|
|
30. |
V.V. Krishna |
CSSP/SSS, JNU, |
|
|
|
|
31. |
B. Eswara Rao |
Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT |
Tuberculosis Sanatoria and Institutional Practices in the
|
|
|
|
32. |
Sujata Mukherjee |
Professor and Head, Dept. of History, Rabindra Bharati Univ., |
suj_40@rediffmail.com |
Western Women and Imperial Medical Intervention in |
|
|
33. |
Kavita Sivaramkrishnan |
|
siva.kavita@gmail.com |
Indigenous Medical Practitioners and Plague Politics in
Urban |
|
|
34. |
Poonam Bala |
Reader, Dept. of Sociology, |
pbala2005@yahoo.com |
Identifying the Impact: Medicine and Indigenous Elites in
Colonial |
|
|
35. |
V. Gayathri |
Research Scholar Dept. of History, |
gayathri_v_iyer@yahoo.com |
Vaidyas and
Physicians: A Spotlight on Medical Interaction in Portuguese |
|
|
36. |
Amrita Bagchi |
Research Scholar Dept. of History, Kolkata-32 |
bagchiamrita@yahoo.com |
|
|
|
37. |
Y. Madhavi & Dinesh Abrol |
NISTADS, New Delhi-110012. |
y_madhavi@yahoo.com |
The Place of R&D in Indian Pasteur Institutes:
Understanding the Colonial Roots of Underdevelopment |
|
|
38. |
Bikramaditya
Kumar Choudhary |
Lecturer in Geography MMV, BHU |
bkc_bhu@rediffmail.com |
Vulnerability of Women to Bacillus: Myths and Reality in
Colonial |
|
|
39. |
Arun Bandyopadhyay |
Dept. of History, |
aruman@vsnl.net |
|
|
|
40. |
Rajsekhar Basu |
Dept. of History, |
rajsekharbasu2001@yahoo.com |
|
|
|
41. |
Paromita Dasgupta |
Dept. of History, |
write2paromita@yahoo.co.in |
|
|
|
42. |
S.K. Noordeen |
President, Inst. Leprosy Assoc., Chennai |
noordeen@eth.net |
|
|
|
43. |
Adya Saxena |
Dept. of History, M.S. Univ., |
|
|
|
|
44. |
Amarjeet Sinha |
Ministry of Health, Nirman Bhawan, |
amarjeetsinha@gmail.com |
|
|
|
45. |
Hormoz Hormazd |
UCL, |
Western physicians in 19th century |
|
|
|
46. |
Otniel E. Dror |
The Hebrew |
otniel@md.huji.ac.il |
‘Voodoo Death’: Fantasy, Excitement, and the Untenable
Boundaries of Science |
|
|
47. |
Osamu Nakamura |
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osaka
Prefecture Univ., 2-1 Gakuen-cho, |
nakamura@hs.osakafu-u.ac.jp Tel. 81-(0)72-252-1161 Fax: 81-(0)72-254-9933 |
Family care of mentally ill patients in Iwakura, |
|
|
48. |
Akira Hashimoto |
Department of Social Welfare, Aichi-ken 480-1198, |
aha@lit.aichi-pu.ac.jp |
Home Custody of Mental Patients in Modern |
|
|
49. |
Seiko Ishitani |
Research Fellow,
Rekishow Project, Global Security Research
Inst. Keio Univ., 2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, |
Tel +81-3-5427-1701 |
Critical contribution of sanitation infrastructure and
primary medical care to child health status in |
|
|
50. |
Ishii Kayoko |
|
Re-evaluation of Traditional Medicine with System Biology |
|
|
|
51. |
Shizu Sakai Dept. of Medical History, 2-1-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, |
|
shist@med.juntendo.ac.jp jsmh@med.juntendo.ac.jp |
|
|
|
52. |
Masanao Makino |
|
makino@komyo.hosp.go.jp |
On the history of leprosy prevention law and its
discrimination and prejudice in |
|
|
53. |
|
|
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|
|
|
54. |
Jong-Chan Lee
|
Department of Medical Humanities & Social Medicine, |
histmed@hotmail.com |
The Climatic Role of Asian and the Pacific Tropics in the
Formation of Western Biomedical Identity: A Geo-Historical Perspective |
|
|
55. |
Isabel Amaral |
Centro de Investigacao em Historia e Filosofia da Ciencia e Tecnologia, Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Quinta da Toree,
2829-516 |
ima@mail.fct.unl.pt |
Continental Drift: A Discussion of the Tropical Medicine
in |
|
|
56. |
Che-chia Chang
|
Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica,
|
Shimizu Usaburo’s Study of the
Japanese Rhubarb: Marriage of the Chinese and European Pharmacological
Traditions |
|
|
57. |
Angela Ki che
Leung |
Academia Sinica, Nankang 11529, |
kcleung@gate.sinica.edu.tw |
Social perceptions of patients of leprosy in late
imperial and modern |
|
|
58. |
Shang-Jen Li |
Asstt. Research
Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Nankang 11529, |
shangli@asihp.net Tel. +886-(0)2-26523145 Fax: +886-(0)2-2786 8834 |
Discovering ‘the secrets of long and healthy life’: John
Dudgeon on hygiene in |
|
|
59. |
Aerin Peijung Chiang |
No.139, |
aerin.chiang@msa.hinet.net |
Comparative Study on Views of Formation, Early Growth,
and Development of Human Being before Birth Between Chinese and Western
Medicine |
|
|
60. |
Jender Lee |
Institute of History and Philology, Academic |
jender@mail.ihp.sinica.edu.tw |
|
|
|
61. |
Li-Sheng |
|
ling11763@yahoo.com.tw |
|
|
|
62. |
Feza Gunergun |
Chair for History of Science, Faculty of Letters, |
feza.gunergun@bilimtarihi.org Ph.0090 212 455 57 00 / 15978, 15981 Fax 0090 212 511 43 71 |
From Quinaquina of “Quinine
law”: A Literary History in the Westernisation of
Turkish Medicine |
|
|
63. |
Harold Cook |
Wellcome
Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL, |
h.cook@ucl.ac.uk |
|
|
|
64. |
Liew Kai Khiun |
Ph.D. Candidate Wellcome
Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at |
liewkk56@hotmail.com |
For the most Energetic of R |
|
|
65. |
Rohan Dev Roy |
Wellcome
Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at |
debahan@sify.com |
Beyond East-West?: Medical manuals and ‘malaria’ in late
19th century |
|
|
66. |
Sanjoy Bhattacharya |
Wellcome
Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at |
sanjoy.bhattacharya@ucl.ac.uk |
Competing Visions, Disparate Practices: The WHO, the
Indian administration and the faltering approach towards smallpox eradication |
|
|
67. |
Vivienne Lo
|
Wellcome
Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at |
v.lo@ucl.ac.uk |
From the Land
of the Indian King: Tibetan Moxibustion Texts |
|
|
68. |
Mark Harrison |
|
From Bazaar Medicine to Hospital Medicine: |
|
|
|
69. |
Amna Khalid |
|
amna.khalid@st-antonys.oxford.ac.uk |
Plague Policy and Governance in |
|
|
70. |
Waltraud
Ernst |
Reader in History |
Tel.
023-80592152 Fax: 023-80593458 |
Locating Social History of Medicine in |
|
|
71. |
Jo Robertson |
ILA Global Project on the History of Leprosy Wellcome
Unit for the History of Medicine |
jo.robertson@history-of-medicine.oxford.ac.uk Tel: +44 1865 284628 Fax: +44 01865 274605 |
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72. |
David Arnold |
Professor of History |
da2@soas.ac.uk |
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73. |
Samiksha Sehrawat |
|
samiksha.s@gmail.com |
Funding for the |
|
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74. |
Sunil Amrith |
Lecturer in History, |
|
Health and Sovereignty in the New |
|
|
75. |
Akiko Ito
|
|
itoxx015@umn.edu |
The virtue of uselessness – the rise and fall of the
electrotherapist in early twentieth century Japan |
|
|
76. |
Hugh Shapiro |
Associate Professor Department of History, |
shapiro@unr.edu |
The Anatomical Logic of twentieth-Century Nervousness in
Comparative Perspective |
|
|
77. |
Khaled Fahmy |
Dept. of Middle Eastern Studies, |
khaled.fahmy@nyu.edu |
To whom does the body belong? Reflections on the practice
of dissection in 19th-century |
|
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78. |
Evelyn Bernette Ackerman |
Department of History, |
Rare Cases in |
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