2008 Taniguchi Medal Award of the Asian Society for the History of Medicine

Award Recipient ：Mr. Rohan Deb Roy (Doctoral Candidate, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London )

Title of Article：‘an unseen, awful visitant’: The making of Burdwan fever

Honorable mention：Mr. Teruyuki KUBO (Doctoral Candidate, the Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)

Title of Article：The identification problem of Mudan 牡丹 in the early Chinese herbals

The recipient of the Medal will be invited to attend the 2008 ASHM Meeting courtesy of the Society.