HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
CENTER FOR KHMER STUDIES, SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA
JANUARY 9-10 2006
JANUARY 8th 2006
| 16:00-17:00 | Early registration |
JANUARY 9th 2006
| 7:30-8:30 | Registration |
| 8:30 | Welcoming Address and Opening Rethy Chhem |
| General Introduction Hal Cook & Laurence Monnais |
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| 9:15-10:45 | Session 1. Historical Perspectives on Medical Traditions in Southeast Asia |
| Bhaisajyaguru and Tantric medicine in Jayavarman VII (1181-1220 CE) hospitals Rhety Chhem, University of Western Ontario |
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| Looking for Angkor hospitals Christophe Pottier, Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient (Siem Reap, Cambodia) |
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| The Impact of Medicine of the Prophet and Practices on Malay Traditional Medicine in Malaysia Nurdeng Deuraseh, Universiti Putra Malaysia |
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| 10:45-11:15 | Break |
| 11:15-12:15 | Session 2. From Mapping “Tropical” Diseases in Southeast Asia to Fighting Against Them |
| Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, and Yaws in the Indonesian Archipelago, 1500-1950 Peter Boomgaard, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) |
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| Locating and Mapping Tropical Diseases in Southeast Asia: A Historical Geography Perspective Dr. Jong-Chan Lee, Harvard-Yenching Institute |
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| 12:15-14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00-15:00 | Session 2 (continued). From Mapping “Tropical” Diseases in Southeast Asia to Fighting Against Them |
| Arms Around the World: The Introduction of Smallpox Vaccine into the Philippines and Macau in 1805 Thomas B. Colvin (Mexico/ Philippines) |
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| Jean Marie Despiau: Much Maligned French Physician in the Royal Medical Service of the Nguyen Dynasty C. Michele Thompson, Southern Connecticut State University |
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| 15:00-15:30 | Break |
| 15:30-17:00 | Session 3. “Medical Encounters” in Colonial Southeast Asia (1) Medicalisation and Social Control in the Context of Western Domination |
| The Hospital as Colonial Microcosm: Conflict and Corruption at the Philippine General Hospital Warwick Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
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| The Nature of the Native Mind: Contested Views of Dutch Colonial Psychiatrists in the Former Dutch East Indies in 1924 Hans Pols, University of Sydney |
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| Hanoi in the Time of Cholera: Epidemic Disease and Racial Power in the Colonial City Michael G. Vann, California State University |
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| 18:00-20:00 | Cocktails at FCC Angkor |
JANUARY 10th 2006
| 8:30-10:30 | Session 4. “Medical Encounters” in Colonial Southeast Asia (2) Medicalisation, Professionalisation, and the “(Re)invention” of Tradition |
| A revolutionary movement to bring traditional medicine back to the grassroots level”: on the bio-politicisation of herbal medicine in Vietnam Ayo Wahlberg, BIOS/London School of Economics |
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| Dokters-Djawa and Doekoens: The Positioning of Western Educated Indonesian Doctors Towards Native Healers in the Dutch East Indies Around 1900 Liesbeth Hesselink, independent scholar, Leiden, the Netherlands |
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| The Anti-Opium Campaign of Colonial Malaya: Between Economics, Public Health and Chinese Nationalism, ca. 1890s-1941 Ooi Keat Gin, Universiti Sains Malaysia (Penang, Malaysia) |
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| Science and Superstition: Pregnancy and Birth in 19th Century Philippines Raquel Reyes, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) |
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| Motherhood and Medical Work in French Colonial Cambodia Sokhieng Au, University of California, Berkeley |
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| 10:30-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-12:30 | Session 5. International Health Care and History of Health Care in Southeast Asia |
| The Conference on Rural Hygiene in Bandung of 1937: Towards a New Vision of Health Care? Annick Guénel, CNRS – LASEMA (Paris, France) |
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| AIDS, Access to Essential Medicines and Global Patent Regime: The Case of Thailand Yu-Ling Huang, State University of New York at Binghamton |
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| Patron and Partner, the “Quiet Americans”: The activities of the Rockefeller Foundation’s International Health Board in Southeast Asia (1915-1940) Liew Kai Khiun, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London |
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| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00-16:00 | Session 6. Medical History in Southeast Asia: Sources, Historiography and Multidisciplinarity |
| Modern Medical History in a Recent Catastrophic ‘Tsunami’ Disaster: Thailand’s Experience Tumtip Sangruchi, Mahidol University |
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| Medicine and Public Health in Thai Historiography: From an Elitist View to Counter-Hegemonic Discourse Chatichai Muksong & Dr. Komatra Chuengsatiansup, Society and Health Institute, Ministry of Public Health |
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| Medicinal knowledge transfer in Maluku, East Indonesia D. Kyle Latinis, HeritageWatch/ Royal University of Fine Arts (Phnom Penh, Cambodia) |
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| 16:00-16:30 | Break |
| 16:30-17:30 | Session 7: From “Local” to “Global”: History of Medicine and Medical Traditions in India |
| Some Historical and Theoretical Issues Based on a Classical Indian Medicine: The Science of Siddha in Tamil Nadu Dr. Frédéric Bourdier, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) |
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| Shanti: Peace for the Mind, Body, and Soul: Well being, health and healing in the Hindu Traditions Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida |
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| 17:30-18:00 | Wrap – up session: What’s next? |
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