HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
Singapore, 23-25 June 2010
in association with the International Association of Historians of Asia
Wednesday 23 June 2010
| 09:00 ‐ 10:00 | Welcome Remarks Gregory Clancey, Asia Research Institute & National University of Singapore Laurence Monnais, Université de Montréal |
| 10:30 – 12.15 | INFECTIONS, TROPICALITY AND THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE Chair: Peter Boomgaard, KITLV |
| Monsoon, Mosquitoes and Malaria: Russell Wallace and the Malay Archipelago Rethy K. Chhem, Medical University of Vienna and Ulm University |
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| Reporting the Outbreak/Narrativizing the Contagion: Manila Times, Official Government Reports and Folk Narratives on the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in the Philippines Francis A. Gealogo, Ateneo de Manila University |
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| Alarm, Confusion and Re-emergence of Obscure Etiologies: The Philippine Health Service and the Tuberculosis Campaign in the American Philippines, 1923‐26 Aaron Rom Moralina, Ateneo de Manila University |
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| Missions of Mercy: Trade Routes and the Dispersion of Vaccinia in the South China Sea C. Michele Thompson, Southern Connecticut State University |
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| 13.00 – 15.00 | Session 2. TRADITIONAL MEDICINE, WESTERN MEDICINE AND THE EMERGENCE OF A MEDICAL / PHARMACEUTICAL MARKET Chair: Laurence Monnais |
| The Practice of Herbal Medicine in Indian Subcontinent in the Colonial Era Baisakhi Bandyopadhyay, University of Kalyani Amit Bandyopadhyay, Bhattacharya Orthopaedic and Related Research Centre |
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| The Medical Market in Java, in the 19th Century Liesbeth Hesselink, Independent Scholar |
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| Chinese Apothecary‐Shops in late Spanish Manila Raquel A. G. Reyes SOAS, University of London |
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| The Origins of Medical Pluralism in the Indo‐Malayan Region Jeyamalar Kathirithamby‐Wells, Cambridge University |
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| 15.30 – 17.30 | Session 3. WOMEN AND MEDICAL PLURALISM IN SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH ASIA Chair: Raquel Reyes |
| The Tropics, Women’s Health and Colonialism in South Asia Ramani Hettiarachchi, University of Peradeniya |
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| British Nursing in the East of Empire: Malaya and China, 1890‐1960 Rosemary Wall, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London |
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| Cross‐Cultural Information Exchange in Early Modern Southeast Asia Matthew Sargent, University of California, Berkeley |
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| Women Medical Practitioners in Colonial India Sabrani Sen, Independent Scholar |
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| 18.30 – | HOMSEA Dinner at Jumbo, Dempsey Road |
Thursday 24 June 2010
| 8.00 – 10.00 | SYMPOSIUM. MEDICAL EDUCATION IN THE DUTCH EAST INDIES AND INDONESIA I Chair: Kartono Mohamad |
| The Culture of Medical Students at the STOVIA and the NIAS Hans Pols, University of Sydney |
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| The Community of Prapatan 10 Hussein Rushdy, Independent Scholar |
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| 10:30 – 12.15 | SYMPOSIUM ‐ MEDICAL EDUCATION IN THE DUTCH EAST INDIES AND INDONESIA II Chair: Kartono Mohamad |
| Training of Medical Doctors in the 1950s to Cope with Poor Health Condition after Indonesia Gained Independence Firman Lubis, University of Indonesia |
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| Developing Indonesia’s Political Culture of Health: The Soekarno Era Vivek Neelakantan, University of Sydney |
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| 13.00 – 15.00 | Session 6. COLONIES IN SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA AS LIVING LABORATORIES: FROM EXPERIMENT TO MODERNITY? Chair: Michele Thompson |
| Plantation Healthcare and Everyday Practices in French Colonial Vietnam Michitake Aso, University of Wisconsin‐Madison |
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| Trade and Commerce at the Risk of Epidemics and Famine in Tropical India, 1880 – 1919 Lee Jong‐Chan, Ajou University |
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| The James Clarke Enquiry: Colonial Psychiatry in the Mid‐19th Century India Shilpi Rajpal, University of Delhi |
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| Between Prevention and Cure: Venereal Diseases in French Colonial Vietnam Isabelle Tracol‐Huynh, Université Lyon 2 |
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| 15.30 – 17.30 | Session 7. HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBALIZATION AND HEALTH IN ASIA Chair: Rhety Chhem |
| For the Great Interest of Our Country and Medical Science: Visions of New Cambodian Medicine in the Revue Médico‐ Chirurgicale de l’hôpital de l’amitié Khméro‐Soviétique Jenna Grant, University of Iowa |
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| Viral Sovereignty as Medical Pluralism: H5N1 Sample Sharing in Indonesia Celia Lowe University of Washington |
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| Global Biocitizenship: Prescription Practices, Patients’ Behavior, and the Market Ma Eun Jeong, Seoul National University |
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| Epidemics and Everyday Life in Colonial Philippines, 1901‐27 Mercedes Planta, University of the Philippines – Diliman |
Friday 25 June 2010
| 8.00 – 10.00 | Session 8. TRADITIONAL MEDICINE VS SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE, NATIONAL SCIENCE VS GLOBAL SCIENCE |
| War, Decolonization, and the Hybridization of Medicine in Postcolonial Vietnam Christopher E. Goscha, Université du Québec à Montréal |
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| Doctors and Dukuns: The Legacy of Dutch Enlightenment Medicine in Colonial and Postcolonial Indonesia Jennifer W. Nourse, University of Richmond |
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| Pluralism, Colonisation and the Industrialisation of Herbal Medicine in Post‐doi moi VietNam Ayo Wahlberg, University of Copenhagen |
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| Concluding Remarks |
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