Congrès d'Histoire de la médecine en asie du Sud-Est

4th International Conference on
The History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HOMSEA 2012)

http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/hist/homsea/conference.html

To be held in Solo (Surakarta)
2-5 July 2012

to coincide with IAHA 2012 (International Association of Historians of Asia)

Organised by:
PERSEKIN
(Perhimpunan Sejarah Kedoktoran Indonesia /
Indonesian Association of the History of Medicine)

With support from:

The University of Indonesia, KITLV
University of Sydney; The Canada Research Chair in Health Care Pluralism, Université de Montréal (Canada)

 

Programme

Monday 2 July

1.30 – 2.00 pm

Opening

Rethy Chhem, president HOMSEA

Kartono Mohamad, president PERSEKIN

2.00 – 3.30 pm

Disease and Political (In)stability

Chair: Kartono Mohamad

1.      Promoters of Health, Preachers of Consciousness: The Philippine Islands Anti-Tuberculosis Society and its Crusade Against Spitting in the American Philippines, 1910-1946

Aaron Rom O. Moralina, Ateneo de Manila University

2.      A Pox on the House of Nguyen: The Social and Political Effects of Smallpox on the Last Royal Dynasty of Vietnam

Michele Thompson, Southern Connecticut State University

3.      Komiks and Public Health Policies during the Japanese Occupation Period in the Philippines

Karl Ian Uy Cheng Chua, Ateneo de Manila University

3.30 – 4.00 pm break

4.00 - 5.00 pm

Medical Professionalization and Nation-Building

Chair: Sutaryo, Universitas Gajah Mada

1.      Healers in the Medical Marketplace: Traditional Medical Practitioners, Medicos Titulares and Licensed Physicians in Nineteenth Century Philippines

Mercedes Planta

2.      Reflections on Medicine’s Modernist Project in Indonesia

Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good, Harvard University

5.00 – 6.00 pm

HOMSEA Keynote Address

Chair: Laurence Monnais, Université de Montreal

            The Unending Dialogue of Past and the Present in Medicine

            Firman Lubis, University of Indonesia

7.00 – 9.30 pm

Opening Ceremony

Tuesday 3 July

8.00 – 10.15 am

Plenary Session IAHA

10.15 – 10.30 am Break

10.30 – 12.30 am

Medical Education in Indonesia

Chair: John Harley Warner, Yale University

1.      Indonesian Medical Education: The Role of the SEARO, International Aid, and the Implementation of Public Health during the 1950s

Vivek Neelakantan, University of Sydney

2.      Midwifery Education in the Dutch East Indies, 1850-1915

Liesbeth Hesselink, Independent Scholar

3.      The Oldest Medical School in Indonesia

S. Somadikarta, University of Indonesia

Commentator: John Harley Warner, Yale University

12.30 – 1.15 pm Lunch

1.15 – 3.15 pm

Traditional Medicines in Southeast Asia, I

Chair: C. Michele Thompson, Southern Connecticut State University

1.      Continuity and Changes: The Evolution of Burmese Traditional Medicine

Céline Coderey, IRSEA, Marseille

2.      Making Medicine, Materializing a Cure: Understanding  the Therapeutic Efficacy of Shamanic Based Healing Among the Orang Sakai of Riau (Sumatra)

Nathan Porath, Pechabun Rajhabat University

3.      Indigenous Medical Traditions in a Frontier Society

Sebastianus Nawiyanto, University of Jember

4.      Tabib as Curer and Converter: History of Islamic Medicine in Early Indonesia

Jennifer W. Nourse, University of Virginia

3.15 – 3.45 pm Break

3.45-4.45 pm

Traditional Medicines in Southeast Asia, II

5.      The Undeclared War: Combating Malaria and Dysentery and Reviving Indigenous Medicine in the Philippines during the Japanese Occupation Period

Arnel E. Joven, University of Asia and the Pacific

Commentator: C. Michele Thompson, Southern Connecticut State University

4.45 – 5.45 pm

HOMSEA Keynote Address

Chair: Harold Cook, Brown University

‘Cholera’ Before and After 1817 in Indonesia

            Peter Boomgaard, KITLV

7.00 – 9.00 pm

HOMSEA Dinner

Wednesday July 4

8.00 – 9.00 am

Institutions for Health, from Public to Private Endeavours

Chair: Rio Sofwanhadi, PERSEKIN

1.      Revisiting Bilbid and Iwahig: Prison Hospitals in the American Occupied Philippines

Francis Gealogo, Ateneo de Manila University

2.      Non-State Hospitals in Indonesia: The Evolutive Change since the Colonial Period

Laksono Trisnantoro and Baha’uddin, Universitas Gadjah Mada

9.00 – 10.00 am

HOMSEA Keynote Address

Chair: Hans Pols, University of Sydney          

Exile and Healing: The Boven Digoel camp in the Dutch East Indies, 1927-1943

Rudolf Mrázek, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

10.00 – 10.30 am Break

10.30 am – 12.30 pm

Leprosy in Southeast Asia

Chair:  Warwick Anderson, University of Sydney

1.      United States Policy on Leper Segregation in the Philippines,

1906-1935

Antonio C. Galang, Jr., University of the Philippines

2.      Comparing Leprosy in Two Dutch Colonial Contexts

Frank Huisman, Utrecht University

3.      Leprosy in the Dutch East Indies: The Medical Debate on Hereditarianism and Contagionism

Leo Van Bergen, KITLV

Commentator: Warwick Anderson, University of Sydney

12.30 – 1.15 pm Lunch

1.15 – 2.15 pm

Mobility, Morbidity and Urban Settings

Chair: Firman Lubis, Universitas Indonesia

1.      Public Health Organization in Modern Bangkok: Rulers’ Thinking, External Pressures and Habitants’ Reaction

Nipaporn Ratchatapattanakul, Thammasat University

2.      Two Birds with One Stone: Health Concerns in the Process of Urban Transport “Modernization” in American-Occupied Manila

Michael D. Pante, Ateneo de Manila University

2.15 – 3.45 pm

Workshop on the History of Psychiatry in Indonesia

Byron Good, Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good, Hans Pols, Denny Thong and others

3.15 – 3.45 pm Break

3.45 – 6.00 pm Solo Batik Festival

7.00 – 9.00 pm Dinner hosted by the Mayor of Solo

Thursday 5 July

8.00 – 10.00 am

Circulation and Construction of Medical Knowledge in Southeast Asia

Chair: Peter Boomgaard, KITLV

1.      Southeast Asian Medicine in the 18th Century: Notes from Linnaean Travel Accounts

David Dunér, Lund University

2.      Social Institutions as Moderators of Cross-Cultural Knowledge Transfer: The Dutch East India Company in Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia

Matthew Sargent, University of California, Berkeley

3.      Exploiting Quinine: From the Tropical Forests of the Andes to the Government Plantations of the Dutch East Indies, 1850-1900

Arjo Roersch van der Hoogte and Toine Pieters, Utrecht University

10.00 – 10.30 am Break

10.30 am – 12.30 pm

Doctors, Migrations and Medical Practice

Chair: Rushdy Hussein, PERSEKIN

1.      Dr. Tung goes to China: Revisiting Ton That Tung's Travels in the Socialist World, 1951-75

Michitake Aso, National University of Singapore

2.      A Doctor and a Reformer: Dr. Willem Bosch on the Welfare of Java 1851-1869

Rupalee Verma, University of Delhi TBC*

3.      Czech Physicians in the Dutch East Indies

Jan Mrázek, National University of Singapore

12.30 – 1.15 pm Lunch

1.15 – 3.15 pm

Global Movements, Local Concerns

Chair: Rethy Chhem, ***

1.      Cattle for the Colonizers: Veterinary Medicine in French Indochina

Annick Guénel and Sylvia Klingberg, CASE (Centre Asie du Sud-Est), CNRS-EHESS

2.      Approaches to Women’s Health in Laos, 1969-2000

Kathryn Sweet, National University of Singapore

3.      The Tropical Persists?: The ROK (Republic of Korea) Military and its Public Health in the Vietnam Context, 1965-1973

John Di Moia, National University of Singapore

4.      Of Ethics and Profit: Opium Addiction as Health Issue in the Late Colonial Indonesia, 1910s-1940

Abdul Wahid, Utrecht University/UGM Yogyakarta

3.15 – 3.45 Concluding remarks

4.00  – 5.30 pm Trip to Prambanan Temple

6.00 – 7.00 pm Dinner

7.00 – 9.00 Prambanan Ballet Dance

Friday 6 July

Excursion

Organized by PERSEKIN (Perhimpunan Sejarah Kedoktoran Indonesia; Indonesian Association of the History of Medicine)