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  > Please find a preliminary program for our conference on the
  > history of medicine in Southeast Asia to be held in Siem Reap next
  > January. For registration and accommodation, please contact Lesley
  > Perlman at [log in to unmask]
  > 
  > If you have any questions about the programme, please contact 
  Laurence MONNAIS
  Professeur adjoint
  Département d'histoire - Centre d'Etudes de l'Asie de l'Est (CETASE)
  Chercheur, Groupe de Recherche sur les Aspects sociaux de la Santé et de la
  Prévention (GRASP)
  Université de Montréal

  C.P. 6128 Succ. Centre-ville
  MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA H3C 3J7
  Tel: (514) 343-6544
  e-mail: [log in to unmask] me.


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  FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

  CENTER FOR KHMER STUDIES
  SIEM REAP (CAMBODIA)
  JANUARY 9-10 2006

  PRELIMINARY PROGRAM



  JANUARY 8th 2006


  16:00-17:00
  Early registration



  JANUARY 9th 2006

  7:30-8:30
  Registration


  8:30
  Welcoming Address and Opening

  Prof. Rethy CHHEM


  General Introduction

  Prof. Hal COOK & Laurence MONNAIS


  9:00-11:00
  Session 1. Historical Perspectives on Medical Traditions in Southeast Asia

  Rethy CHHEM, University of Western Ontario (London, Canada)
  "Bhaisajyaguru and Tantric medicine in Jayavarman VII (1181-1220 CE)
  hospitals"

  Christophe POTTIER, Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient (Siem Reap, Cambodia)
  "Looking for Angkor hospitals"

  Frédéric BOURDIER, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) (Paris,
  France)
  "Some Historical and Theoretical Issues Based on a Classical Indian
  Medicine: The Science of Siddha in Tamil Nadu"

  Nurdeng DEURASEH, Universiti Putra Malaysia ( Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
  "The Impact of Medicine of the Prophet and Practices on Malay Traditional
  Medicine in Malaysia"


  11:00-11:30 : Break


  11:30-12:30
  Session 2. From Mapping "Tropical" Diseases in Southeast Asia to Fighting
  Against Them

  Peter BOOMGAARD, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and
  Caribbean Studies (KITLV) (Leiden, The Netherlands)
  "Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, and Yaws in the Indonesian Archipelago, 1500-1950"

  LEE Jong-Chan, Harvard-Yenching Institute (Cambridge, USA)
  "Locating and Mapping Tropical Diseases in Southeast Asia. A Historical
  Geography Perspective"


  12:30-14:00: Lunch break


  14:00-15:00
  Session 2 (bis). From Mapping "Tropical" Diseases in Southeast Asia to
  Fighting Against Them

  Thomas B. COLVIN (Mexico/ Philippines)
  "Arms around the world: The introduction of smallpox vaccine into the
  Philippines and Macau in 1805"

  C. Michele THOMPSON, Southern Connecticut State University (New Haven, USA)
  "Jean Marie Despiau: Much Maligned French Physician in the Royal Medical
  Service of the Nguyen Dynasty"


  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

  Warwick ANDERSON, University of Wisconsin (Madison, USA)
  "The hospital as colonial microcosm: conflict and corruption at the
  Philippine general hospital"

  Hans POLS, University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia)
  "The Nature of the Native Mind. Contested Views of Dutch Colonial
  Psychiatrists in the former Dutch East Indies in 1924"

  Michael G. VANN, California State University (Sacramento, USA)
  "Hanoi in the Time of Cholera: Epidemic Disease and Racial Power in the
  Colonial City"


  18:00-20:00
  Cocktail at FCC Angkor



  JANUARY 10th 2006


  8:30-10:30
  Session 4. "Medic al Encounters" in Colonial Southeast Asia (2)
  Medicalisation, Professionalisation, and the "(Re)invention" of Tradition

  Liesbeth HESSELINK (Leiden, The Netherlands)
  "Dokters-djawa and Doekoens. The positioning of western educated Indonesian
  doctors towards the native healers in the Dutch East Indies round 1900"

  OOI Keat Gin, Universiti Sains Malaysia (Penang, Malaysia)
  "The Anti-Opium Campaign of Colonial Malaya. Between Economics, Public
  Health and Chinese Nationalism, ca. 1890s-1941"

  Raquel REYES, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) (London, UK)
  "Science and Superstition: pregnancy and birth in 19th century Philippines"

  Sokhieng AU, University of California (Berkeley, USA)
  "Motherhood and Medical Work in French Colonial Cambodia"


  10:30-11:00: Break


  11:00-12:30
  Session 5. International Health Care and History of Health Care in Southeast
  Asia

  Annick GUÉNEL, CNRS - LASEMA (Paris, France)
  "The Conference on Rural Hygiene in Bandung of 1937 : towards a new vision
  of health care ?"

  HUANG Yu-Ling, State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton, USA)
  "AIDS, Access to Essential Medicines and Global Patent Regime: The Case of
  Thailand"

  LIEW Kai Khiun, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at
  University College London (London, UK)
  "Patron and partner, the "Quiet Americans": The activities of the
  Rockefeller Foundation's, International Health Board in Southeast Asia
  (1915-1940)"


  12:30-14: Lunch break


  14:00-15:30
  Session 6. Traditional Medicines vs Biomedicine in Southeast Asia: Some
  Pluridisciplinary Perspectives

  Pollie BITH-MELANDER, San Jose State University (San José, USA)
  "Cambodian Health Care History: Khmer Medicine, the Language of healing, and
  AIDS Therapy"

  D. Kyle LATINIS, HeritageWatch/ Royal University of Fine Arts (Phnom Penh,
  Cambodia)
  "Medicinal knowledge transfer in Maluku, East Indonesia"

  Ayo WAHLBERG, BIOS / London School
  of Economics (London, UK)
  "A revolutionary movement to bring traditional medicine back to the
  grassroots level" - on the bio-politicisation of herbal medicine in Vietnam"


  15:30-16:00: Break


  16:00-17:30
  Wrap -round session: What's next?





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