The Fifth Meeting of the Asian Society for the History of Medicine

         Climate, Environment and Disease

    Crossing Historico-Geographical Boundaries

The Asian Society for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce its Fifth Conference. It will take place October 7-9, 2010, in Suwon of South Korea, a historical city famous for the Hwaseong Fortress inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

The Asian Society for the History of Medicine welcomes paper submissions from general historians as well as from medical historians. We particularly invite those historians who have worked on climate, environment and disease from a historico-geographical perspective. Although submissions from all eras and regions are welcome, Its special emphasis will be given on the following topics in terms of world history :

Comparative Ecology of Climate and Disease between the East and the West

Nature, Humanity and Race

Asian Black Death and Global Environment

Little ice Age, Global Warming and Epidemiological Transformation

Tropical Diseases and Hygiene

Relationship between Globalization and Nationalism in the Making of Modern

Medicine : Biomedicine vs. Environmental Medicine

As always, the proposal's maximum words should be less than 2,000 words. Presentations are limited to 20 minutes. All the participants are encouraged to use MS-Word software. Please send your proposal to the

Organizing Committee Chair,

Jong-Chan LEE (Ajou University, Republic of Korea),

jclee@ajou.ac.kr

Department of Medical Humanities and Social Medicine

School of Medicine

Ajou University

Suwon, 422-721

Republic of Korea

KEY DATES

- Conference Dates : October 7-9, 2010

- Proposal Submission Deadline : August 31, 2010

- Pre-Registration Deadline : July 31, 2010

VENUE

   AJOU UNIVERSITY & HOTEL ,

    City of Suwon, Republic of Korea

TRANSPORTATION

  Regularly running-shuttle bus from Incheon Int'l Airport to Suwon

  for less than 2 hours 

PASSPORT & VISA

  All people who want to visit Korea need to have a valid passport and   visa. The visitors from the countries It depends on the agreement condition between countries

KOREAN FOOD

For a Korean, not a day goes by without fermented dishes, such as Kimchi or Denjang Kook. Those are known as very healthful ones. Furthermore, Seolleongtang, Galbi and so on are much enjoyed by Koreans, too. I recommend you to taste Bibipbob and Bulgogi, the most popular Korean foods among foreigners.

INSURANCE

We advise all participants to visit Korea after applying for the travel and health insurance in case of diverse emergency condition. The ICAS 6 secretariat has no special insurance coverage for all participants and is not responsible for all kinds of accidents during the convention.

CREDIT CARD

Visa and MasterCard are available at most Korean hotels, stores, restaurants and so on.

Organizing Committee Members

Jong-Chan LEE (Ajou University, Republic of Korea)

Mark CAPRIO (Rikkyo University, Japan)

In Sung CHANG (Chungnam National University, Republic of Korea)

Chul-Soo JEON(Korean Medical Association, Republic of Korea)

Nam Il KIM (Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea)

Iijima WATARU (Ayoyama University, Japan)