Prof Angela Ki Che Leung (The University of Hongkong)
Glocalizing medicine in the Canton/Hong Kong region in late Qing China
(ca. 1840-1911)
Abstract: This study attempts to show the differing roles of Western
medical missionaries, Chinese doctors, patients, students and publishers
in integrating western medical practice in the region. On the other hand
the stories of the plague and jiaoqi/beriberi epidemics at the turn of
the century will illustrate how a rapidly deteriorating epidemiological
situation in the region challenged existing Western and Chinese framing
of diseases and how new strategies of observation, therapeutics,
management of patients had to be developed.
Speaker Bio: Angela Ki Che Leung, Director of the Hong Kong Institute
for the Humanities and Social Sciences and Chair Professor of History,
Joseph Needham – Philip Mao Professor in Chinese History, Science and
Civilization, University of Hong Kong and Academician, Academia Sinica.
Author of Leprosy in China: A History (Columbia University Press, 2009).
Thursday, 14 May 2015
4:00 p.m., Rooms 8 & 9, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies,
University of Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge CB3 9DA
Travel Bursaries are available for students from outside of Cambridge.
Please contact Shirley Ye at [log in to unmask] for further details.
For the video of the lecture delivered by Prof Ien Ang (University of
Western Sydney) on 6 May at the University of Birmingham,
please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4nvkpSI2mY
For more information see:
http://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/news-events/eas/global-china/new-approaches-2015-05-14
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