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HISTORY OF WESTERN MEDICINE IN CHINA,
1835-1950

Call for Papers

Indiana University, Indianapolis

June 15-16, 2012



June 15-16, 2012 Indiana University (Indianapolis) will host the first of two
conferences* aimed to increase understanding of Western medicine (xiyi in
Chinese) in modern China in the pre-Maoist period.



We invite conference papers to examine the establishment of this new medicine
which left archives tracing new directions in the health of China ’s women,
children and men, patient-physician relationships, and conflicting and merging
theories and practices of healing. We wish to encourage the growing scholarship
in this field with basic institutional research and broader topics in the
social and cultural history of health and medicine. Understudied topics in the
field include: hospital-based studies of specific diseases; the rise of medical
leaders trained in China; Japanese and European influence in various periods;
the role of military medicine, and of medicine in war; change and continuity of
specific institutions that merged or were abandoned; racial medicine,
anthropometry and physical anthropology among physicians; missionary physicians
and Chinese physicians abroad as two-way conduits of global and local medical
knowledge; and cooperation and conflict in Chinese and foreign medical
philanthropy. Despite recent advances, the field of possible topics is still
extremely broad; paper proposals on these and other topics are welcome.



Selected conference papers will be included in a peer-reviewed, edited volume.
We welcome proposals from both established scholars and senior graduate
students.



Please submit an abstract of 250 words, along with a brief CV, no later than
December 1, 2011.



Inquiries and abstracts can be directed to David Luesink:

dluesink@iupui.edu

Phone: (317) 274-4740



PRC Scholars:

We have funding set aside for travel and research costs for a small number of
junior scholars from the PRC who have not had a chance to access North American
archives. For scholars from the PRC, please include a separate statement of 150
words describing which North American archives related to medicine in China you
would like to use and how these would fit into your research.



* Indiana University
and its co-sponsor, the Peking University Health
Science Center ,
have been funded with a major three-year grant (2011-2013) from the Henry Luce
Foundation to support this project on the history and archives of Western
medicine in China
in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For more on the project and
conference, please see:



http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/wmicproject



Conference Organizer:

David Luesink

Research Associate,

Medical Humanities Program, IUPUI