HOMSEA 2023

History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HOMSEA) 2023

 
Nanyang Technological University

Thursday 8 June
6.00 Reception
 

Friday 9 June
 

9.00
KEYNOTE: Doctors Dissenting against the Dictatorship: Medicine, Martial Law, and
Marcos in the Philippines, 1972-1986
Francis A. Gealogo, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
 

10.15 – 12.15
 

Parallel Panel 1
Chinese Medicine in Southeast Asia
 

From Imperial Tribute to Chinese Traditional Medicine as Practiced in Southeast Asia:
the East Asian Tributary System from Han through Qing as the Historical Background
to Chinese Medicine in Southeast Asia
C. Michele Thompson, Southern Connecticut State University, USA
 

Meditation, Miracles and Medicine: The Vicissitudes of the Zhenkongjiao’s Aetiology of
Health and Disease in East and Southeast Asia (19th century CE – present)
Esmond Chuah Meng Soh, Independent researcher, Singapore
 

The Five Phases in Chinese Medicine’s Socialist Adaptation: A Textbook-Based
Research
Gao Shanshan, City University of Hong Kong
 

“To be Seen by the World”: The Unofficial and Everyday Diplomacy of Taiwanese
Chinese Medicine in Southeast Asia and Beyond
Karoline Buchner, Freie Universität Berlin and Academia Sinica, Taiwan
 

Parallel panel 2
Investigating Traditional Medicine
 

In Search of Medicine: Imperial Japan’s Research on Traditional Remedies in Vietnam
Nara Oda, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
 

Testing the Enchanted Water: Medical-based Experiments on Traditional
Pharmaceutical Knowledge
Gani Jaelani, Padjadjaran University, Indonesia
 

The Emergence of Post-Colonial Traditional Indonesian Medicine for Chickens
Tsung Jen Hung, University of Sydney, Australia
 

12.15 – 1.30 Lunch
 

1.30 – 3.30
Local Traditions
 

Divine Scents and Aromatic Medicines: Ruxiang (Frankincense) from the Red Sea to
Maritime Asia
Wee Siang Margaret Ng, College of Wooster, USA
 

Cancer, Herbal Medicine and the Goddess: Healing and Divine Guidance in Malaysia
Daniel Spigelman, University of Sydney, Australia
 

Potency and Phitsanu: Healing Efficacy in Southern Lowland Laos
Elizabeth Elliot, Independent scholar
 

3.00 – 3.30 tea
 

3.30 – 5.00
 

Parallel Panel 1
Historiographical Reflections
 

“Will the Real Traditional Medicine Please Stand Up?”: Reasoning Through the
Politics of Medical Legitimacy
Kathryn Muyskens, National University of Singapore
 

How To Write Biographies of Indonesian Medical Legends
Rudi Pekerti, Independent scholar, Indonesia
 

Parallel Panel 2

Psychiatry and Mental Health
  

Therapy for the Psyche: Non-Western Psychotherapy in Post-Colonial Indonesia,
1950s-1960s
Iwan Wahyu Widayat, Airlangga University, Indonesia
 

The History of Psychiatry in Cambodia
Bora Sovady and Ngin Ratanakromanea, University of Health Sciences, Cambodia
 

6.00 Dinner
 

Saturday 10 June
 

9.00 – 10.30
 

Parallel Panel 1
Health Challenges in Southeast Asia
 

Anti-Yaws Campaigns in the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia: Forgotten Disease,
Incomplete Victories, 1930-1965
Vivek Neelakantan, independent scholar, Mumbai, India
 

Public Health in the Philippines: the Tuberculosis (TB) epidemic (1950s-1980s)
Arnab Chakraborty, Shanghai University, China
 

The Bubonic Plague in Central Java
Devi Nur Maharani, State Islamic University Raden Mas Said Surakarta, Indonesia 

Parallel Panel 2
Chinese Medicine in the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia
 

Trans-advertising of Western Pharmaceutical Products and Chinese Pharmaceutical
Products in the SIN PO Newspaper 1923-1941
Zulfa Saumia, Jambi University, Indonesia
 

Sin Po, Jang Seng Ie, and the Case of Lead Poisoning in Indonesia in the 1930s
Ravando, University of Melbourne, Australia
 

The Influence of Traditional Chinese Medicine on Traditional Indonesian Medicine: Challenges in Validating Safety and Efficacy and Preventing Biodiversity Loss
Inggrid Tania, Driyarkara School of Philosophy, Indonesia
 

11.00-12.30
Parallel Panel 1
Medical Research in Southeast Asia
 

Disease Ecology in Postwar Malaya
Jack Greatrex, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
 

Therapeutic Trial of Prophylactic Alkaloids in British Malaya
Jiun Shen Fong, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
 

To be an Epicenter of Malaria Drug Resistance and Malaria Elimination
Jenna Grant, University of Washington, USA
 

Parallel Panel 2
Islamic Medicine
 

Bekam in the Twist of Time: Decolonizing Islamic Medical Knowledge in the Indonesian
Colonial Period

Martina Safitri, UIN Raden Mas Said, Surakarta, Indonesia
 

Rumah Terapi: Acculturation of Chinese and Islamic Medicine in Indonesia in the 2000s
Fathia Lestari, UIN Sunan Gunung Djati, Indonesia
 

The Interactions of Arab-Muslim Medicine with Chinese Medicine in the History of the
Health of the Peoples of Southeast Asia
Hachelafi, University of Oran, Algeria
 

12.30 – 1.30 lunch
 

1.30 – 3.00
 

Parallel Panel 1
Western Medicine Goes East
 

Pioneers of Women’s Health in the Archipelago: Exploring the Life and Role of Dr
Marie Thomas, Dr Sulianti Saroso and Dr Nafsiah Mboi
Sudirman Nasir, Hasanuddin University, Indonesia
 

When the Traditional Midwive is a Man: Intertwined Traditional and Biomedial
Knowledge and Practices around Childbirth in Laos
Pascale Hancart Petitet, Université de Montpellier, France
 

Filipino Tutelage and Communicating Medicine: Tagalog Articles in Print Media
during the American Regime, 1927-1940
Nikko Jay B. Ramos, Ateneo de Manila, Philippines
 

Parallel Panel 2
Health and Health Care in the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia: Local
Histories 

The Ethical Policy and Health Services in Plantations, 1900-1930
Wasino, Semarang National University, Indonesia
 

Health in Jombang: From Disease to the Hygiene Centrum in 1905-1942
Alfian Widi Santoso, Airlangga University, Indonesia
 

Health Conditions of the North Coast of Java’s Population: Public Health Policy in
Afdeeling Demak and Grobogan, Semarang Residency during the Dutch Colonial
Period, 1900-1942
Endah Sri Hartatik (Diponegoro University), Fortuna Devi Putri Sina, Wasino
 

3.00 Excursion to Medicinal Garden
 

7.00 Banquet
 

Sunday 11 June
9-10.30
 

Parallel Panel 1
Traditional Medicine in Indonesia
 

Jamu in Mevrouw Jans’ Perspective
Dennys Pradita, Jambu University; Adi Putra Surya Wardhana, Indonesian Art Institute,
Solo, Indonesia
 

Obat Asli: Indonesian Doctors, the Jamu Commission and Alternative Medicines for
Malaria from Local Indonesian Materials during World War II
Brad Horton, Waseda University, Japan
 

Healthy Life with Traditional Medicine and Treatment: Local Ingenuity and Continuity
in Aceh and West Sumatra
Fakhriati, BRIN, Indonesia
 

Parallel Panel 2
Medical Traditions Crossing Borders
 

Japanese Medicine Business in Dutch East Indies: Supporter of Indonesian Nationalism
or Glocalization Strategy?
Meta Sekar Astuti, Hasanuddin University, Indonesia
 

Foreign Traditional Medicine: The Thai State and Chinese Medicine Regulations, 1960-
1975
Wattana Keeratichandecha

Pampered patricians and Unprivileged Plebs: Quacks in Colonial and Post-Colonial
India
Kaushalya Bajpayee, Ministry of Health, Thailand
 

11.00-12.30
Medicine, War, and Social Upheaval
 

Health Issues during the Indonesian Revolution: Women’s Perspectives
Galuh Ambar Sasi, Satya Wacana Christian University, Indonesia
 

Battles and Condoms: Fighting Venereal Disease in Mid- 20th Century Asia
Mayumi Yamamoto, Miyagi University, Japan
 

The New Zealand Surgical Team in Vietnam: a Colombo Plan Civilian Aid Project in a
Military Environment
Susan Heydon, University of Otago, New Zealand
 

Ways of Medicine at Plantungan Internment Camp, 1971-1979
Amurwani Dwi Lestariningsih, University of Indonesia
 

12.30- 1.30 lunch
 

1.30-3.00
Health, Medicine, and Food
 

Betel Chewing in Prehistoric Indonesia
Dismas Rienthar and Ashwin Prayudi, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
 

Sex and Marriage in Batavia in the VOC Era, 1619 - 1799
Linda Robertus, Griffith University, Australia
 

The Making and Unmaking of Makan (Eating): The Boundaries of Foods in Colonial
Encounters in the Indian Ocean
Kathleen Burke, National University of Singapore