We will have a workshop on history of medicine in East Asia on 15-16 July at Todai Komaba. Seven scholars will give papers on the history of medicine, disease, and the body in East Asia in the early modern and modern periods. Everybody is welcome!
Workshop on History of Medicine in East Asia
Dates 15-16 July 2016
Place Collaboration Room 3, Building 18, Komaba Campus, University of Tokyo
15 July (Friday)
13.45- 14.00 Opening Remark Akihito Suzuki
14.00-15.00
Evan Young (Dickinson College)
Recentering the Quotidian: Healing Practices in Early Modern Japanese Diaries
15.00-16.00
Waka Hirokawa (Senshu University)
The Executioner’s Medicine: The Traffic of Body Parts in the City of Edo
16.00- 17.00
Akihito Suzuki (Keio University)
Voices of Madness: Case Histories and Literary Works on Mental Illness in Modern Japan
Conference Dinner
16 July (Saturday)
9.30- 10.00 Morning Coffee
10.00-11.00
Keiko Daidoji (Keio University)
The Formation of Constitutional (Taishitsu) Medicine in Early Twentieth- Century Japan: The Debate on the Susceptibility to Tuberculosis
11.00-12.00
Hilary Smith (University of Denver)
Hunger as a Medical Problem: Changes in Concepts of Nutrition in Chinese Medicine
12.00-13.30 Lunch Break
13.30- 14.30
Alexander Bay (Chapman University)
Disease, Environment and Historical Agency
14.30- 15.30
William Johnston (Wesleyan University)
A Reconsideration of Epidemics in History and Theory
15.30-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00- 17.30 General Discussion
