13:00-13:30

Reception

13:30-14:00

Opening Ceremony

Oration：

1. Shizu SAKAI

(President of Asian Society for the History of Medicine )

2. Yuan-Tseh LEE (President of Academia Sinica)

3. Fan-Sen WANG

(Director of Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica )

14:00-15:00

Keynote Speech 1

Chair：Shigehisa KURIYAMA (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)

Speaker ：Harold COOK  (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London)

Title: Communication in the First Global Age: Willem ten Rhijne in Japan, 1674-1676

15:00-15:30

Break

15:30-17:45

Panel 1：Past Achievement Ι

Chair：Chia-Feng CHANG  (National Taiwan University)

Speakers：

1. Jianping ZHU   (China Academy of Traditional Chinese medicine),   Research on History of  Medicine in China in the Last Five Years  Full Text

2. Jender LEE (Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica), The Past as a Foreign Country: Recent  research on Chinese medical history in Taiwan   Full Text

3. Shi-Yung LIU (Institute of Taiwanese History, Academia Sinica), Writing Medical History in Taiwanese Context    Full Text

18:00

Banquet

9:00-10:00

Keynote Speech 2

Chair：Fu-Shih LIN  (Academia Sinica)

Speaker：Cheng-Sheng TU (President of National Palace Museum)　

   The Comprehensive  Understanding of History Through Medicine: A Congratulatory Remark Delivered at the Inauguration of the Asian Society for the History of Medicine

10:00-10:30

Break

10:30-12:00

Panel 2：Past Achievement Π

Chair：Jianping ZHU  (China Academy of Traditional Chinese medicine)

Speaker：

1. Shizu SAKAI (Juntendo University), Medical History in Japan  Full Text

2.  Feza GUNERGUN (Faculty of Letters, Department of History Science, Istanbul University), Medical history in Turkey: A review of past studies and recent researches  Full Text

12:00-14:00

Lunch ＆ Visit Museum of Institute of History and Philology

14:00-15:30

Panel 3： Japan Encounters Modernity

Chair：Che-Chia CHANG  (Academia Sinica)

Speakers：

1. Jong-Chan LEE (Department of Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, Ajou University), Modernity of Hygiene in Meiji Japan, 1868-1905   Full Text

2. Akiko ITO (International Research Center for Japanese Studies), Electricity makes us healthy ---The Popularization of electrotherapy  in Japan   Full Text

15:30-16:00

Break

16:00-17:30

Panel 4： Toward a Clean and Healthy Body

Chair：Chia-Ling WU  (National Taiwan University)

Speaker：

1. Wen-Ji WANG (National Taipei University), “Laying out a Model Village”: George Gushue-Taylor and Missionary Leprosy Work in Colonial Taiwan   Full Text

2. Keiko DAIDOJI (University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies), What the sick should know―image of the body drawn from a health manual of early nineteenth century Japan  Full Text

9:00-10:00

Keynote Speech 3

Chair：Feza GUNERGUN  (Istanbul University)

Speaker：Deepak KUMAR (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Title: History of medicine in south Asia some concerns, some questions

10:00-10:30

Break

10:30-12:00

Panel 5：Medical Theories in Transition

Chair：Donald HARPER (University of Chicago)

Speakers：

1. Barbaba VOLKMAR  (University of Heidelberg), On Sense and Nonsense of  Premodern Medical Theories: the Example of Theories on Smallpox 

Full Text

2. Sanjoy BGHATTACHARYA (The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London), Is a change in the basic terms of reference necessary? An examination of the case of the history of public health and medicine in South Asia, 1880-1980    Full Text

12:00-14:00

Lunch ＆ ASHM Meeting

14:00-15:30

Panel 6：Sex in Medicine

Chair：Akihito SUZUKI (Keio University)

Speaker：

1. Sumiyo UMEKAWA (University of London), Transmission of Sexual Positioning in Relationship with Female Orgasm   Full Text

2. Donald HARPER (University of Chicago), Ancient and Medieval Chinese Recipes for Aphrodisiacs and Philters: A Survey of Mawangdui and Dunhuang Manuscripts  Full Text

15:30-16:00

Break

16:00-17:30

Panel 7：Chinese Medicine in the Twentieth Century

Chair：Shang-Jen LI  (Academic Sinica)

Speakers：

1. Hsien-Cheh CHANG and Kwei-Hua TSAI (China Medical University), The Inheritance and Change with Last 60 Years for The Traditional Chinese Medicine Stores in Taiwan   Full Text

2. Daqing ZHANG (National Beijing University),  The Prevention and Treatment of Communicable Diseases: the Beginning of the Institutionalization of Modern Chinese Medicine      Full Text

9:00-10:30

Panel 8：Body and Spirit in Question

Chair：Hugh SHAPIRO  (University of Nevada)

Speakers：

1. Hsiu-Fen CHEN (Department of History, National Chengchi University),    Articulating ‘Chinese Madness’: A Review of the Modern Historiography of Madness in Pre-Modern China   Full Text

2. Vivienne LO (Wellcome Trust Centre for the HOM, UCL),  Huangdi Hama jing (Yellow Emperor's Toad Canon)    Full Text

10:30-11:00

Break

11:00-12:30

Panel 9： The West in China

Chair：Pingyi CHU  (Academic Sinica)

Speakers：

1. Hao CHANG (Center for General Education, Fortune Institute of Technology), Benjamin Hobson: The Introduction of Western Religion, Medicine, and Science Into Nineteenth-Century China    Full Text

2. Hugh SHAPIRO (University of Nevada), Interpreting the idea of nerves in nineteenth-century China   Full Text

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:30

Round Table Discussion： Future Directions

Sean Hsiang-Lin LEI (National Tsing Hua University)

Harold COOK  (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London)

Deepak KUMAR (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Shigehisa KURIYAMA  (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)

15:30-16:00

Closing Ceremony

Shizu SAKAI  (President of ASHM, Juntendo University)