The Sixth Conference
for the Asian Society for the History of Medicine
13-15 December 2012
Keio University (Hiyoshi Campus)
13 December 2012
15.00 – 17.00 Graduate Sessions
Motoyuki GOTO, “Reconsider the historical meaning of the Mental Patients’ Custody Act and its actual practice of public confinement”
Eri NAKAMUA, “War Neurosis in Imperial Japanese Army: The Politics of
Inclusion and Exclusion under All-out War System”
Toshika ODA, “Missionary Medicine in Early Modern Korea: Religion, Modernity, and the Construction of Hybridity”
Tetsuro TANOJIRI, TBC
TBC, “Goto Shinpei and the Expansion of Biopolitical Power”
14 December 2012
9.00-10.00 Opening Remark and the Presidential Address
Akihito Suzuki (Keio University)
“Empire, Eugenics and the Psychiatry of Population in Japan 1930-1945”
10.15-11.45 Session 1
Iijima/Tropical Medicine (1-A), Hirokawa/Hansen (1-B), Nakao/Pollution (1-C) , Oberlaender/German-Japanese (1-D), Li/Tropical Diseases (1-E)
12.00-13.00 Plenary 1
Kosuge Nobuko (Yamanashi Gakuin University)
“Radiation and the nation: how can we heal the Japanese deep traumas after the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant?”
13.00-14.15 Lunch Break
14.15-15.15 Plenary 2
Alfons Labisch (Duesseldorf)
“Social history of medicine today - a classic approach beyond the turns of the turns”
15.30-16.45 Session 2
Shin/Traditional Medicine (2-A), Kim/Modern Korea (2-B), Yoshinaga/Psychiatry (2-C), Yamashita/Nursing (2-D), Chua/Medicine in the Philippines1 (2-E)
17.00-18.30 Session 3
Ichikawa/Treaty Ports (3-A), Daidoji/Traditional Medicine (3-B), Chua/Medicine in the Philippines2 (3-C), Kim/Colonial Korea (3-D) Chen/Diplomacy (3-E)
19.00-.21.00 Buffet Party, Taniguchi Medal and Japanese Dance
15 December 2012
9.00-10.30 Session 4
Yongue/Business (4-A), Kim/Space (4-B), Kubo/Traditional Medicine1 (4-C), Lee/Women (4-D)
10.45-11.45 Plenary 3
Susan Burns (Chicago)
TBC
11.45-13.00 Lunch break
13.00-14.00 Plenary 4
Mark Harrison (Oxford)
“Risk and Security in the Age of Pandemics”
14.15-15.45 Session 5
Hashimoto/Psychiatry (5-A), Liu/Epidemics (5-B), Nakamura/Different Systems (5-C), Chen/Health (5-D)
16.00-17.30 Session 6
Nagashima/Public Health (6-A), Wu/Medicine and Development (6-B), Jeong/Colonial Medicine (6-C), Hogetsu/Health (6-D)
17.45-18.45 General Discussion The Closing Address and Welcome from the New President