Medical Practices in Chinese Medicine in Comparative Perspective
Medical Practices in Chinese Medicine in Comparative Perspective
April 15-16, 2018
Tel Aviv University, 496 Gilman Building
Sunday, April 15, 2018
9:30-9:45: Welcome and Introduction
Blood and Medical Practice
9:45-10:30: Fabien Simonis (Independent scholar)
“Pulses of Madness: Handling Insanity in Medical, Judicial, and Historical Practice”
10:30-11:15: Orly Lewis (Hebrew University)
“Taking the Pulse in Ancient Greece and Rome: between Theory and Practice”
11:15-11:45: Coffee Break
Medical Cases of Popular Healers
11:45-12:30: Yu Xinzhong (Nankai University)
“Bring Back to Life: Liu’s Day-to-Day Account on Medical Recipes and the Everyday
Healing Practice in Late Qing Shanxi”
12:30-13:15: Sare Aricanli (Durham University)
“Identity of a late Ming Medical Figure Gong Tingxian: Author of Popular Medical
Texts and Doctor of Imperial Medicine”
13:15-14:45: Lunch
The Body in Practice
14:45-15:30: Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins)
“The Hand Book: The Healer’s Body-as-Technology in Northern Song Medicine”
15:30-16:15: Chang Chia-feng (National Taiwan University)
“Yijing and Medicine: The Perfect Body in the Jin-Yuan-Ming China”
16:15-17:00: Reut Harari (Tel Aviv University)
“Kanpu Masatsu: The Invention of a Traditional Practice”
Monday, April 16, 2018
Theorizing Medical Practice
9:30-10:15: Susan Burns (University of Chicago)
“Diagnosing and Treating ‘Bad Blood’: The Clinical Encounter with Leprosy in Early
Modern Japan”
10:15-11:00: Hilary Smith (University of Denver)
“The Noncompliant Patient: Reading between the Lines of the Chinese Medical Canon”
11:00-11:30: Coffee Break
Medical Practice Beyond the Medical Text
11:30-12:15: Andy Schonebaum (University of Maryland)
“Prognosis as Diagnosis: Divination and Medicine in Ming and Qing fiction”
12:15-13:00: Shalmit Bejarano (Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University)
“Truly Unbearable”: Thinking (Mal)practice in the Scroll of Illnesses”
13:00-14:15: Lunch
Medical Cases of Ruyi Physicians
14:15-15:00: Yi-Li Wu (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
“The Learned Lancet: Therapeutic Strategies and Healer-Client Dynamics in the
Medical Cases of Xue Ji”
15:00-15:45: Asaf Goldschmidt (Tel Aviv University)
“Medical Practice during Twelfth-century Song Dynasty – Canons and Experience”
15:45-16:15: Coffee Break
Spaces of Medical Practice
16:15-17:00: Miri Shefer-Mossensohn (Tel Aviv University)
“Typology of Clinical Options in the Ottoman Imperial Palace and Harem, 16th –
17th Centuries”
17:00-17:45: Alexander Bay (Chapman University)
“Schistosomiasis in the Clinical Space: Doctors, Patients and Parasites in Japan”