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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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