
Conference on
RELIGION AND HEALING
and
The
Second Meeting of
the
Asian Society for the History of Medicine
Organized by
Institute
of History and
Philology, Academia Sinica
“Religion
and Healing” Research Program, Academia Sinica
The Asian Society for
the History of Medicine
Time:November
16-19, 2004
Place:Institute
of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Conference on
RELIGION AND HEALING
November 16, 2004(Tuesday)
09:00─09:30 |
Registration |
09:30─10:30 |
Plenary Session:
Welcoming Remarks: Fan-sen Wang (Director, Institute of History & Philology,
Academia Sinica)
President’s Address : Shizu Sakai (President of the Asian Society for the
History of Medicine; Jutendo University)
Taniguchi Medal Award Ceremony: Shizu Sakai
Award Recipient: Mr. DHRUB KUMAR SINGH
(Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Title of Article:
Cholera in Two Contrasting Pathies in Nineteenth Century
India
ASHM Minute Report: Jen-der Lee (Institute of History & Philology, Academia
Sinica) |
10:30─12:00 |
Session One: Keynote Speech
Chairperson:
Hon-wai Ho(Institute
of History & Philology, Academia Sinica)
Speaker:
1. Mihály Hoppál (Director, the Institute of Ethnology of Hungarian Academy
of Sciences and European Folklore Institute), “Shamanic Healing: Concepts
and Practices.” |
12:00─13:30 |
Lunch Break |
13:30─15:00 |
Session Two: Buddhism (I)
Chairperson and Discussant:
John H. Kieschnick
(Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica)
Speakers:
1.
Jian-ping Zhu (China Institute for History of Medicine and Medical
Literature, China Academy of Traditional Chinese medicine),
“Buddhist
medical activities in inland China and its motives of practicing in ancient
China.”
summary
2. Shu-fen Liu (Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica),
"Between
Self-cultivation and the Monastic Code: Tea and Medicinal Soup in the
Monastic Life of the T’ang and Sung Dynasties."
summary |
15:00─15:30 |
Break |
15:30─17:00 |
Session Three: Buddhism (II)
Chairperson and Discussant: Shu-fen Liu (Institute of History & Philology,
Academia Sinica)
Speakers:
1. Ming Chen (Research Central
of Eastern Literature, Peking University), "Ayurvedic Medical Knowledge
Recorded in Esoteric Sutras of Chinese Tripitaka: A Case of Kumàratantra or
øàlàkya."
summary
2. Yuan-peng Chen (Department of History, National Taiwan University) & Le
Kang (Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica), “From
‘Rice-porridge for Bhikkhu & Bhikkhun’ to ‘Rice-porridge for the Cultivation
of Life’.”summary |
November 17, 2004 (Wednesday)
09:30─12:00 |
Session Four: Shamanism and Divination (I)
Chairperson and Discussant :
Jo-shui
Chen
(Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica)
Speakers:
1. Fu-shih Lin (Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica),
“Healers or Patients: The Shamans’ Roles and Images in Taiwan.”
summary
2. Zong-kun Li (Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica), “The
Illness Accounts and Denotations of “Numerical Diagrams”.”
summary
3. In-sung Chang (Chungnam National University), “Exorcists in Ancient East
Asia.”
summary |
12:00─13:30 |
Lunch Break、ASHM
Members’ Meeting |
13:30─15:00 |
Session Five: Christianity (I)
Chairperson and Discussant : Wen-Ji WANG (Department of History, National
Taipei University)
Speakers:
1.
Barbara Wilhelmi (Institut für Kunst und Kirchenbau, Philipps-Universität), “Differentiations: Christian Healing Tradition.”
summary
2. Shang-jen Li (Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica),
“Healing
Body,
Saving Soul: Medical Missions to Nineteenth-Century China.”
summary |
15:00─15:30 |
Break |
15:30─17:00 |
Session Six: Christianity (II)
Chairperson and Discussant : Hsiu-Yun Wang (Kaohsiung Medical University)
Speakers:
1. Cristina Zaccarini (Dept. of History, Adelphi University, Garden City,
New York), “Improving the lives of women through evangelism, sympathy and
science: Nineteenth and twentieth century women missionary doctors and local
Chinese popular beliefs.”
summary
2. Jen-der Lee (Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica), " From
Wife to Missionary: Lillian Dickson’s Medical Missions in Post-War Taiwan."
summary |
November
18, 2004(Thursday)
09:00─10:30 |
Session Seven: East Asia and West Asia
Chairperson and Discussant : Shang-jen Li (Institute of History & Philology,
Academia Sinica)
Speakers:
1. Shinji Kajitani (Teikyo University, Tokyo), “Medical Care and Religious
Healing in the Clinical Reality.”
summary
2. Erica Couto-Ferreira (Institut Universitari de Historia Jaume Vicens
Vives, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain), “The
Aetiology of Illness in Ancient Mesopotamia:
On Supernatural Causes.”
summary
|
10:30─11:00 |
Break |
11:00─12:30 |
Session Eight: Judaism and Islam
Chairperson and Discussant :
Ku-ming Chang
(Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica)
Speakers:
1. Carmen Caballero-Navas (Department of Semitic Studies, University of
Granada, Spain), “Jews and Healing in the Middle Ages: The Harmonisation of
Jewish Beliefs with Theories and Practices of Different Western Medical
Traditions.”
summary
2. Hormoz Ebrahimnejad (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at
UCL, London), “The
Development of Galenico-Islamic Medicine: Assimilation of Greek Sciences
into Islam.”
summary |
12:30─13:30 |
Lunch Break |
13:30─15:00 |
Session
Nine:
China (I): Exchange and Assimilation
Chairperson and Discussant: Jianmin Li (Institute of History & Philology,
Academia Sinica).
Speakers:
1. Che-chia Chang (Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica),
“Predictions
of Disease in Astrological Texts at a Cross-Cultural Occasion: A Preliminary
Survey of the Translated Disease Names in the Kūšyār ibn Labbān’s
Introduction to Astrology.”
summary
2. Sheng Jiang (Institute of Religion, Science, and Social Studies, Shandong
University), “Daoism and Smallpox Vaccination.”
summary |
15:00─15:30 |
Break |
15:30─17:00 |
Session Ten: China (II):
The
Daoist body and Healing
Chairperson and Discussant : Angela Ki Che Leung (Institute of History &
Philology, Academia Sinica)
Speakers:
1. Hung-yi Chuang (Department of Religious Studies, Fu Jen University),
“Song Dynasty Taoist Medicine: A Hong Mai “Yijian zhi” Based Research.”
summary
2. Sumiyo Umekawa (Department of History, School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London), “Sex and Immortality: A Tentative Study on
How Chinese Sexual Art Impressed upon the Idea to Become Better-Beings in
Religious Contexts.”
summary
|
November 19, 2004 (Friday)
09:00─10:30 |
Session
Eleven:
China (III): Body and Spirit.
Chairperson and Discussant : Chung-lin Ch’iu (Institute of History &
Philology, Academia Sinica)
Speakers:
1. Jianmin Li, (Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica), “Dumai
(the central vessel) and the Formation of the Conception of the Male Body in
Early China.”
summary
2. Hsiu-fen Chen (Department of History, National Chengchi University),
“What Confucius Didn't Speak of? A Preliminary Survey of Physicians'
Attitudes towards ‘Demonic Affliction' in Late Imperial China.”
summary |
10:30─11:00 |
Break |
11:00─12:30 |
Session
Twelve:
China and East Asia (IV): Contagious Diseases.
Chairperson and Discussant :
Ping-yi Chu(Institute
of History & Philology, Academia Sinica)
Speakers:
1. Hsien-cheh Chang (China Medical University), “A Study on Religious
Therapy and Concepts of Disease from Magic Figures, Incantation and Tortoise
Shell Divination in Traditional Chinese Medical Literature.”
summary
2. Ji-chao
Wang
(
Hubei Provincial Museum),
“Hallucinogens and Athanasia-medicine: The religious consciousness turn
during Warring States,
Qin and Han periods in China.”
summary |
12:30─14:00 |
Lunch Break and General Discussion: Religion and Healing
Chair: Paul Katz(Institute
of
Modern History, Academia Sinica) |
November 20, 2004 (Saturday)
09:00─12:00 |
Tour: National Palace Museum |
12:00─13:00 |
Lunch |
13:00─17:00 |
Tour:
Oxford College、Mackay
Clinic (Kai I-guan) |
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