The Seventh Conference
for the Asian Society for the History of Medicine

15-17 December 2014
The University of Hong Kong

The Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the University of Hong Kong is pleased to co-organize with the Asian Society for the History of Medicine its 7th bi-annual conference in Hong Kong. This conference, entitled “Food and Health”, proposes to examine the link between what we consume and our body’s health in the Asian context, with emphasis on its historical process. Given the various medical traditions and their differing theories of disease, nourishment, and wellbeing, how did Asian societies understand the connection between food and health? In particular, the organizing committee has identified three important themes as related to food and health in history: Nutrition and Body, Food as Product/Poison/Cure, and Hunger and Famine, detailed description of which can be found in the page titled "Themes." Scholars from various disciplines and backgrounds are encouraged to submit proposals related to any of these particular themes.

Once all the proposals are received, the organizing committee will select up to approximately 60 papers for inclusion in this conference. There is a limited amount of resources to help some conference participants to defray travel and accommodation expenses. If you have other sources of funding and do not wish to be considered, please indicate this on the Online Registration Form. The deadline for submission is 15th January 2014.

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

Asian Society for the History of Medicine Taniguchi Medal 2014

The Taniguchi Medal commemorates the great contribution of Mr. Taniguchi Toyosaburo, whose foundation supported the International Symposium for the Comparative History of Medicine East and West over the course of twenty-three consecutive years (1976-1999).

The Medal will be awarded at meetings of the ASHM to a graduate student for an outstanding essay (whether published or not yet published) on some aspect of the history of medicine. Any graduate student (as of July 31, 2014) who meets any one of the following criteria is eligible to apply: 1) is enrolled in an Asian university, 2) works on Asian medicine, 3) is of Asian nationality.

The recipient of the Medal will be invited to attend the 2014 ASHM Meeting courtesy of the Society.

Submission of Essays and Award for 2014:
1.Paper format: an article in English, double-spaced, maximum 20 pages in length.
2.Submissions must be accompanied by a nomination letter from a faculty advisor.
3.Deadline for submissions: July 31, 2014
4.Review by notification : September 30, 2014
5.The medal will be awarded at the ASHM Meeting to be held in Tokyo
6.Please submit your essay to both of the following addresses:
1)ashm@mail.ihp.sinica.edu.tw
2)Secretariat, Asian Society for the History of Medicine, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Nankang 11529, Taipei, TAIWAN

The Sixth Conference
for the Asian Society for the History of Medicine

14-15 December 2012
Keio University, Hiyoshi Campus (Yokohama)

Korera Taiji (Fighting with Cholera) (1886)

The Sixth Conference for the Asian Society for the History of Medicine will be held at Keio University in Japan on 14-15 Dec 2012. The theme of the conference is “Medicine, Society and Culture in Asia and Beyond”. Possible topics might include:

§Transmission of medical ideas and materials within and beyond Asia

§Modernization and the history of the body

§Colonial and imperial medicine

§Public health and the nation-building

§Trade, politics and medicine

§The impact of Western medicine

§Gender, Race, and making of the people

§Books, patients, laboratories, and the fields

We encourage historians of medicine to submit a proposal for a 20-minute individual paper, or a proposal for a 90-minute panel for 3-5 papers via email by 31 July 2012 to Akihito Suzuki (akihitosuzuki2.0@gmail.com). The abstract for an individual paper should not exceed 350 words. The abstract for the panel should list the rationale for the panel and the abstracts of the papers, maximum 1500 words in total. We encourage panel-organizers to include different countries in a single panel, (e.g. leprosy in China, Korea, Japan, and India). We have a limited fund for travel and accommodation. Please ask for further details if any assistance is required.

We are also going to have a special day for graduate students’ workshop, and we hope we receive a lot of paper- or panel proposals from graduate students interested in history of medicine.

http://web.hc.keio.ac.jp/~asuzuki/BDMH/ASHM/ASHMFirst.htm

Asian Society for the History of Medicine Taniguchi Medal 2012

The Taniguchi Medal commemorates the great contribution of Mr. Taniguchi Toyosaburo, whose foundation supported the International Symposium for the Comparative History of Medicine East and West over the course of twenty-three consecutive years (1976-1999).

The Medal will be awarded at meetings of the ASHM to a graduate student for an outstanding essay (whether published or not yet published) on some aspect of the history of medicine. Any graduate student (as of July 31, 2012) who meets any one of the following criteria is eligible to apply: 1) is enrolled in an Asian university, 2) works on Asian medicine, 3) is of Asian nationality.

The recipient of the Medal will be invited to attend the 2012 ASHM Meeting courtesy of the Society.

Submission of Essays and Award for 2012:
1.Paper format: an article in English, double-spaced, maximum 20 pages in length.
2.Submissions must be accompanied by a nomination letter from a faculty advisor.
3.Deadline for submissions: July 31, 2012
4.Review by notification : August 31, 2012
5.The medal will be awarded at the ASHM Meeting to be held in Tokyo
6.Please submit your essay to both of the following addresses:
1)ashm@mail.ihp.sinica.edu.tw
2)Secretariat, Asian Society for the History of Medicine, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Nankang 11529, Taipei, TAIWAN

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 : June 30, 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)

Asian Society for the History of Medicine
Taniguchi Medal 2010

The Taniguchi Medal commemorates the great contribution of Mr. Taniguchi Toyosaburo, whose foundation supported the International Symposium for the Comparative History of Medicine East and West over the course of twenty-three consecutive years (1976-1999).

The Medal will be awarded at meetings of the ASHM to a graduate student for an outstanding essay (whether published or not yet published) on some aspect of the history of medicine. Any graduate student (as of July 31, 2010) who meets any one of the following criteria is eligible to apply: 1) is enrolled in an Asian university, 2) works on Asian medicine, 3) is of Asian nationality.

The　recipient of the Medal will be invited to attend the 2010 ASHM Meeting courtesy of the Society.

Submission of Essays and Award for 2010:
1.Paper format: an article in English, double-spaced, maximum 20 pages in length.
2.Submissions must be accompanied by a nomination letter from a faculty advisor
3.Deadline for submissions: July 31, 2010
4.Review by notification : August 31, 2010
5.The medal will be awarded at the ASHM Meeting to be held in Korea on October 7-9, 2010
6. Please submit your essay to both of the following addresses:
1)ashm@mail.ihp.sinica.edu.tw
2)Secretariat, Asian Society for the History of Medicine, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Nankang 11529, Taipei, TAIWAN

CALL FOR PAPERS
ASHM-2008

Medical History: Crossing the Social and Ethnical Boundaries
4-6 November, 2008, Yunnan, CHINA

The conference proposes to understand medical history with an emphasis on boundaries crossing. Scholars are invited to present their papers on any issue of medical history in any historical times, but with focuses on practices and knowledge that either interact, go beyond or even break the social and ethnical categorizations.

Conference Dates : 4-6 November, 2008

Conference Location: Yunnan, CHINA

Host Institute: The Institute for the History of Natural Science,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
The Asian Society for the History of Medicine

Deadline for submitting abstracts: January 31, 2008

Decision on acceptance of abstracts: March 31, 2008

Full papers submitted before September 30, 2008.

Hard copies and electronic versions of the abstracts and later full papers would be required (e-mail: pengdl@ihns.ac.cn).

We regret our inability to arrange for air fares and living expenses, but hope our heartfelt hospitality and the beautiful sceneries of Southwest China will make our gathering most successful. .

Contact Address: Dr. Liao Yuqun c/o Ms. Peng Dongling
The Institute for the History of Natural Science,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
No. 137, Chao Nei Street
Beijing, 100010,
P. R. China

Tel. : 86-10-6405-8662 (Dr. Liao Yuqun)
86-10-6401-7635 (Ms. Peng Dongling)
Fax : 86-10-6401-7637
e-mail : pengdl@ihns.ac.cn

第四屆亞洲醫學史學會：「跨越階級與族群的醫療史」研討會徵文

時間：2008年11月4日至11月6日
地點：雲南麗江

亞洲醫學史學會（The Asian Society for the History of Medicine, ASHM）將於2008年11月4日至11月6日假雲南麗江舉辦研討會。本屆研討會由中國科學院自然科學史研究所 和學會共同主辦，主題為「跨越階級與族群的醫療史」，歡迎學者投稿，討論各個歷史時期不同文化中的醫療史課題 ，唯希望能著重於醫療知識與實作中的越界現象。

有意提報論文者請於2008年1月31日前將500字之中文摘要和1000字之英文摘要寄交中國科學院自然科學史研究所。主辦單位將於2008年3月31日以前通知結果，獲得採用者務請於2008年9月30日之前繳交完整之論文，以便主辦單位申請經費補助及大會行政作業事宜。會議論文以中文或 英文撰寫為原則，非英文之文稿請附上1000字之英文摘要。

本次會議不需註冊費，但亦不提供交通與食宿費用。但主辦單位之熱情 招待和麗江的美景將令各位與會學者賓至如歸，敬請期待。如有任何問題，請與主辦單位之彭冬玲女士聯絡。

「跨越階級與族群的醫療史」學術研討會籌備會
召集人：廖育群，中國科學院自然科學史研究所所長
酒井靜，亞洲醫學史學會會長，日本順天堂大學醫學史教授
聯絡人：彭冬玲，中國科學院自然科學史研究所
電郵：pengdl@ihns.ac.cn
電話：+86-10-64017635
傳真：+86-10-64017637