new IASTAM journal Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity

[Guest guest]

Dear Colleague,

 

I am writing to let you know about some exciting new events planned

for next academic year. Over the last three years UCL's Wellcome

Trust Centre for the History of Medicine has increasingly invested

in the history of Asian medicine. The new MA programme offers a wide

range of courses which might interest you, including those in the

history of Chinese medicine, the history of Indian medicine and

Understanding International Health. With core courses and options in

the history of biomedicine the MA will provide an ideal opportunity

for the reflective practitioner who is genuinely interested in the

nature of their traditions.

..

Running through the autumn term there will be an exhibition of

treasures taken from the rich and wonderful Asian medical collection

at the Wellcome library. This will be held at SOAS Brunei gallery,

Asia: Body Mind and Spirit.

 

To coincide with the exhibition at the end of term we will celebrate

the launch of the new IASTAM journal Asian Medicine: Tradition and

Modernity with a conference at the Brunei gallery. Asian Medicine -

Tradition and Modernity will be a multidisciplinary journal aimed at

researchers and practitioners of Asian medicine in Asia as well as

in Western countries. It makes available in one single publication

academic essays that explore the historical, anthropological,

sociological and philological dimensions of Asian medicine as well

as practice reports from clinicians based in Asia and in Western

countries.

 

Next term we also have the second part of the popular History and

Culture of Food and Medicine in China with contributions by both

Paul Unschuld and Donald Harper

 

 

For more information, please see our website: www.iastam.org or

email me at e.ford

 

Regards

 

Emma