ASHM/HOMSEA Program

The Malaria Expedition of Dr. Robert Koch through Java in 1899, Jan-Peter Verhave, Netherlands Society of Tropical Medicine

Infants, Toddlers and Children in the Medical Journal of the Dutch Indies, Anjo Veerman, VU University, Amsterdam

Perspectives on Mental Illness during the Dutch Colonial Era, Hans Pols, University of Sydney

Indonesian and Chinese authors in the Medical Journal of the Dutch Indies, Liesbeth Hesselink, Independent Scholar

Eclampsia: An Inquiry into its Origin and Treatment, Antoine Keijser, Radboud University Nijmegen

Medical Administration: How Colonial Medical Services Were Organised, Geert van Etten, Global Health Advisor

Hospitals Before and After Independence: Continuity, Transition, and Change, Sjoerd Zondervan, Independent Scholar

Parallel Session A2: Histories of the Malaria War: Exploring Malaria around the Japanese Occupation of Indonesia and Malaysia
Chair: Hans Pols, University of Sydney

Malay, then Indonesian: Exploring Texts about Malaria before and after the Japanese Occupation, James Collins, Kebangsaan Malaysia University

Prevention of Terminal Tropical Illness: Japanese Medical Studies for the War, Mayumi Yamamoto, Miyagi University

“The Japanese … Had Little or no Knowledge of the Disease”: Malaria as the Site of Colonial Knowledge Claims, Sandra Manickam, Erasmus University

‘Kehidoepan Njamoek Malaria’ and ‘Obat-Obatan Asli’: Wartime Public Health Efforts seen through Indonesian Print Materials on Java, William Bradley Horton, Akita University

Direct-to-Consumer Markets for Stem Cells: A Comparative Analysis of Australia, Japan and Singapore, Tamra Lysaght, National University of Singapore

Emerging Gene Technologies and their Legalities in Southeast Asia: A Postcolonial Exploration, Sonja van Wichelen, University of Sydney

Parallel Session B2: Reshaping Medicine and Nursing after World War II in Taiwan
Chair: Hsiu-yun Wang, National Cheng Kung University

Competing for the State: The Medical Market, the Profession and the Taiwan Medical Association in Early Post-war Taiwan, Hung Bin Hsu, National Cheng Kung University

Chow Meiyu and Military Nursing Training in Taiwan, 1950s-1970s, Shu-Ching Chang, Chang Gung University, Taiwan

A History of Radioactive Iodine Treatment for Hyperthyroidism in Taiwan, Hsiu-yun Wang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Dynamic Cultural Ethics in Treating Human Remains: Intersections of Beliefs, Sciences and Human Values on Re-study, Disposition, Repatriation and Reburial, Claudia Surjadjaja, ALERTAsia Foundation

Disenfranchised Exit: Transformation of End-of-Life Care from Moral Economy to Modern Medicine in Hong Kong and Singapore, Harry Wu, University of Hong Kong

Presentation of the Taniguchi Medal of the Asian Society of the History of Medicine to Dutta Marnikamika, by Wen-Ji Wang, National Yang-Ming University

Filipino Physicians in Spanish Colonial Philippines: The Relation to Imperial Medicine with a Focus on Late 19th Century’s Manila, Yoshishiro Chiba, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido

The Changes of the Responses to Epidemics in the Philippines During the Era of American Domination, Chenyang Wang, Peking University

Plague and its Handling in the Residence of Surakarta in 1915-1922, Wasino, Semarang State University

Medical Recipe Books in the Dutch East Indies, 1875-1940, Liesbeth Hesselink, Independent Scholar

Parallel session C2: Indonesia’s 1965 Tragedy: Towards a Redefinition of History?
Chair: Tyas Suci, Atma Jaya Catholic Univ of Indonesia, Jakarta

Breaking the Silence: Cultural and Religious Pathways of Surviving the Stigma of Indonesia’s 1965 Political Upheaval, Ninik Supartini, Elemental Productions, Los Angeles; Mahar Agusno, Gadjah Mada University

Performing Songs and Staging Theatre Performances as a Way of Working through the Trauma of the 1965 Indonesian Mass Killings, Dyah Pitaloka, University of Sydney

The Truth is Silenced, but What about the Trauma?: Psychological Encounters in the Aftermath of Indonesia’s 1965 Tragedy, Nani I.R. Nurrachman-Sutoyo, Atma Jaya Catholic Univ of Indonesia, Jakarta

Changes in the Treatment of Excrement in Korea, 1880-1930s, Yunjae Park, Kyung Hee University

Urban Sanitation and Plague Prevention in Modern Shanghai: Focusing on Smallpox Vaccine, Jeongeun Jo, Kyung Hee Univesity

The Control of Venereal Diseases in Colonial Delhi and Urban Hygiene, Woonok Yeom, Korea Univesity

Parallel Session D2: Insanity, Mental Illness, and Psychiatry, I
Chair: Byron Good, Harvard University

Individuals? Asylum Care in the Netherlands Indies, 1910-1940, Sebastiaan Broere, University of Amsterdam

The Insulin Myth in Chinese Psychiatry: A Study on Insulin Coma Therapy in China, Xiaoyang Gu, Capital Medical University, China

Neurasthenia, Psy Sciences, and the Great Leap Forward, Wen-Ji Wang, National Yang-Ming University

Parallel Session D3: Medicine, Power, Trade, and Decolonisation
Chair: Anjo Veerman, VU University

The Japanese Medicine Business in the Netherlands East Indies, Meta Sekar Puji Astuti, Hasanuddin University

Power Relations and Public Health Knowledge in Bali, I Nyoman Wijaya, I Nyoman Sukiada & Anak Agung Ayu Dewi Girindrawardani, Udayana University

Health Equity and Community Empowerment in Indonesia: An example of a Colonial Inheritance in Health, Rodri Tanoto, University of Indonesia

The History of Health Care Philanthropy in Indonesia, Laksono Trisnantoro, Gadjah Mada University

The History of Modernization of Psychiatry on Japan’s Peripheries: Taiwan and Okinawa, Akira Hashimoto, Aichi Prefectural University

Public Baths and the Concept of Cleanliness in Modern Japan, Miki Kawabata, Ritsumeikan University

The Role of Shinto in the History of Psychiatry in Japan, Iyo Kaneda, Kyoto University

Parallel Session E2: Insanity, Mental Illness, and Psychiatry, II
Chair: Mary Jo DelVecchio Good, Harvard University

The Problem of Mental Health in Plantungan, Amurwani Dwi Lestariningsih, Presidential Museum Balai Kirti

Should the Study of Koro be Repatriated to Indonesia? David Peter Mitchell, Monash University

Parallel Session E3: The History of Psychology in Indonesia
Chair: Nani I.R. Nurrachman-Sutoyo, Atma Jaya Catholic Univ of Indonesia, Jakarta

The Development of Psychology in Post-Colonial Indonesia, 1950-1959, Iwan Wahyu Widayat, Airlangga University

The Historical Transition toward the Emergence of Psychology in Indonesia, Eunike Sri Tyas Suci, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Jakarta

The Quest for Postcolonial Self: Inter-referencing, Manusia Indonesia, and Psikologi Jawa, Fadjar I. Thufail, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI)

Ragapadmi and the Failed Health Propaganda on Leprosy in the Dutch East Indies, Dimas Iqbal Romadhon, Universitas Islam Raden Rahmat

Winning the Losers: The Life of the Patients in the World of Indonesian Health, Moordiati, Gajdah Mada University

The Herb Pharmaceutical Industry in South Korea, Eunjeong Ma, Pohang University of Science and Technology

Indian Medicine (Ayurveda) in Malaysia: Globalized Commodification after Decolonization, Md. Nazrul Islam, United International College, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University

Parallel Session F2: Medical Research and Medical Education in Transition
Chair: Liesbeth Hesselink, Independent Scholar

Apotheker Assistenten School (1920 – 1934): The First School of Pharmaceutical Agents in Java, Fathia Lestari, Independent Scholar

Transitions and Training: The Problem of Biomedical Staffing During South Sulawesi’s Post-Independence Period, 1950-1959, Jennifer Nourse, University of Richmond

Developing ‘Centres of Excellence’: The Indian Cancer Research Centre, 1950-1962, Shirish N. Kavadi, Symbiosis International University, Pune

Life, Science and Nation: Uramoto Masasaburō’s Physiological Worldview, 1935-1945, Hong Sookyeong, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

Mobilising Applied Medical Sciences for Indonesia: Soekarnoist Science and Asian-African Solidarity (1950s), Vivek Neelakantan, Independent Scholar

The Chinese Diaspora, the Cholera Pandemic, and Politics in Southeast Asia and China, 1960-1961, Xiaoping Fang, Nanyang Technological University

The Vietnam War (1965-1973) and its Impact on APCO: Emerging Networks of Tropical Medicine through inter-Asian Collaboration, 1965-1974, John P. DiMoia, Seoul National University

Parallel Session G2: Drugs and the Medical Treatment of Addiction in Indonesia
Chair: Jennifer Nourse, University of Richmond

The Hidden History of Cocaine in Indonesia during the Colonial Era, Eunike Sri Tyas Suci, Atma Jaya Catholic Univ of Indonesia, Jakarta

The Anti-Opium Crusade in Java: The Rise and Development of Anti-Opium Movement in Late Colonial Java, 1915-1942, Abdul Wahid, Gadjah Mada University

Illicit Drugs Policies during the Colonial Era and the Post-Independence Indonesia, Sudirman Nasir, Hasanuddin University

Parallel Session G3: Diet, Nutrition, and Health
Chair: Gani Ahmad Jaelani, Padjadjaran University

Between Poverty and Ignorance: The Question of Nutrition in Javanese People during the Late Colonial Period, Gani Ahmad Jaelani, Padjadjaran University

“Hidden Hunger”: How Nutrition and Culinary Programs used as Government’s Propaganda to Conceal the Famine and Malnutrition Cases in Indonesia (1950 – 1967), Fadly Rahman, Padjadjaran University

The Question of Nutritional Improvement during the New Order Period in Indonesia (1966-1998), Shendy Vegaziandra Arsandy, Siti Hanipah & Rifa Utami Zahara, Padjadjaran University

The Origin of the Child Health Care in the Sumatra East Coast “Cultuurgebied”, Devi Itawan, Gadjah Mada University

Parallel Session H2: Tuberculosis and Zoonosis
Chair: Vivek Neelakantan, Airlangga University

 Tuberculosis to Respiratory Medicine: The Historical Development of Pulmonology in Indonesia, Agus Dwi Susanto, University of Indonesia

Rat and Zoonosis Cases in Gunung Kidul: Study on Collective Memory of Health Issue, Martina Safitri, State Islamic Institute of Surakarta