Tel Aviv University, Gilman 496, September 18-20, 2022
Our conference will stand on three legs or will have three focal points – two will be thematic and one will be methodological:methodological : Medical Encounters, Practices, and archives. The clinical encounter, to give one example from the three, in a broad sense is the first focal point. The medical encounter between a doctor and a patient is the epicenter of medicine. It is during these brief moments that years of preparation and training culminate in what the physician hopes would be a cure for the patient’s disease. Even the slightest mistake during these encounters can cause deterioration in the patient’s condition or even lead to fatal consequences. Given the importance of the medical encounter, it is quite surprising how little we know about how it actually unfolded in practice before the twentieth century. In this conference we want to enhance our understanding of the medical encounter on any facet we can from patients’ and healers’ bodies to their engagement with each other. It is therefore all the more appropriate that we dedicate this conference to the late Charlotte Furth (January 22, 1934-June 19, 2022) and Nathan Sivin (May 11, 1931-June 24, 2022). Both illuminated many complex facets of the medical encounter in Chinese history that we will all collectively continue to build upon during this conference and well into the future.
Charlotte Davis Furth (January 22, 1934–June 19, 2022)
Obituary in the LA Times Obituary in Association of Asian Studies October 1, 2022 Memorial service
Nathan Sivin (May 11, 1931-June 24, 2022)
Participants
| Sare Aricanli (University of Durham) | Florence Bretelle-Establet (University Paris Diderot) | Eléonore Caro (EHESS (School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences) Paris) |
| Cheng Wan-Chun (University Erlangen-Nuremberg) | Connie Cook (Lehigh University) | Jean Corbi (Sciences Po Centre for History) |
| Ruixuan Du (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) | Michal Erlich (Tel Aviv University) | James Flowers (Kyung Hee University) |
| Asaf Goldschmidt (Tel Aviv University) | Marta Hanson (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) | Naama Cohen-Hanegbi (Tel Aviv University) |
| Brian Po-Huei Hsieh (University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana) | Joan Judge (York University) | Natalie Köhle (Hong Kong Baptist University) |
| Mayan Lalush (Hebrew University) | Efraim Lev (Haifa University) | Lan Li (Johns Hopkins University) |
| Amir Mazor (Haifa University) | Joachim Prackwieser (Charite, Berlin) | Sarah Rivkin (Tri-State College of Acupuncture) |
| Pierce Salguero (Penn State, Abington) | Andrew Schonebaum (University of Maryland) | Miri Shefer-Mossensohn (Tel Aviv University) |
| Hilary Smith (University of Denver) | Thies Staack (CSMC, University of Hamburg) | Wu Chia-yun (Ludwig-Maximilians-University) |
| Yi-Li Wu (University of Michigan) | SJ Zanolini (Johns Hopkins University) |
Organizers
Asaf Goldschmidt
Tel Aviv University
gasaf@tauex.tau.ac.il
Marta Hanson
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
mhanson4@jhmi.edu
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