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Medicine as a Medium of Multiple Modernities

Transactions and Contingencies between China, Germany, Japan and Korea In the 19th and 20th Centuries

Ziel der Konferenz, die in Zusammenarbeit mit der  Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften und mit Förderung der DFG  durchgeführt wurde, war, aus einer globalen Perspektive und durch den  Focus der Medizin Prozesse der Modernisierung in Japan, China und  Deutschland zu erfassen und auf ihre Wechselwirkungen zu befragen, um  auf diesem Wege Hintergrundwissen für aktuelle Fragen der Globalisierung  zu schaffen.

International Workshop

10th-12th March 2011

at Martin-Luther-University Halle (Saale), Germany
supported by and in cooperation with the German National Academy of Sciences / Leopoldina
supported by the German Research Foundation / DFG

Organizers:

• Heiner Fangerau, History of Medicine, Ulm
• Ichinokawa Yasutaka, Sociology of Medicine, Tokyo
• Alfons Labisch, History of Medicine, Düsseldorf
• Christian Oberlaender, Japanese Studies, Halle
• Heinz Schott, History of Medicine, Bonn

Program

Thursday, March 10 2011

15:15 Opening of the Meeting

Venue: Aula, Löwengebäude of Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)

Welcome Address by Vice-President of Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) Prof. Dr. Christoph Weiser

Welcome Address by the President of German National Academy of Sciences / Leopoldina Prof. Dr. Jörg Hacker

15:30 Opening Lectures

Venue: Aula, Löwengebäude of Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)

• Alfons Labisch (Düsseldorf)

Medicine as a Medium of Multiple Modernities - Transactions and Contingencies among China, Germany, Japan and Korea in the 19th and early 20th Centuries

• Christian Oberländer (Halle)

Germany - Japan - China: Encounters, Continuities and Contingencies in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries

Commentators

• Ijima Wataru (Tokyo)
• Wolfgang Knöbl (Göttingen)
• Cao Shuji (Shanghai)

18:00 Buffet

Venue: Lecture Hall 12, Löwengebäude of Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)

20:00 Public Lecture (in German)

convened by the German National Academy of Sciences /  Leopoldina

Venue: Aula, Löwengebäude of Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)

• Li Xuetao (Beijing)

Die Achsenzeit und China (The Axial Age and China). Der Einfluss der chinesischen Kultur auf die Entstehung des Konzepts "Achsenzeit" bei Carl Jaspers und die Wirkung des Konzepts der "Achsenzeit" auf die chinesischen Intellektuellen in China seit den 1980er Jahren

Friday, March 11 2011

Venue: Lecture Hall 13, Löwengebäude of Martin-Luther-University Halle Wittenberg (MLU)

09:00-12:00 1. Section: Medicine and Society: medical cultures - medical ideologies

Chairperson:

• Ichinokawa Yasutaka

Lecturers:

• Kim Hoi-eun (Texas A&M University)

Anatomically Speaking: Kubo Takeshi, Physical Anthropology, and the Paradox of Race in Japan-occupied Korea

• Franziska Tappe (Halle)

Medicalisation of Bathing Culture in Germany and Japan: The Example of Neurasthenia

• Anne Lange (Halle)

Medicine as a Medium of "German habitus"? A Case Study of Kishi Ichita

• Maria Schmitz, Heiner Fangerau (Ulm)

Medicine - State - Culture: Narratives in the Encounter of Germany and Japan in Medicine

Commentator:

• Suzuki Akihito (Tokyo)

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-16:00 2. Section Medicine as a Medium to shape conditions and behaviour: public health in Qingdao

Chairperson:

• Alfons Labisch

Lecturers:

• Walter Bruchhausen

Medical transfer at the grassroots – Health care provision by German-speaking Christian missionaries in Southern China at the end of the 19th Century

• Chen Liang (Shanghai)

The Epidemic of Cholera in Qingdao in 1939

• Han Zhihao (Shanghai)

An Epidemiological Analysis of Huang County's Cholera in 1919 and German Public Health Policy's Influence on  Longkou Port's Planning

• Ichikawa Tomoo (Shanghai)

Japanese Occupation and Public Health in Qingdao: The Case of the Cholera Epidemic in 1919

Commentators:

• Robert Lee (Liverpool)
• Iijima Wataru (Tokyo)
• Li Yuchang (Shanghai)

16:45-18:45 3. Section Health Care Systems and Sickness Funds

Chairperson:

• Iijima Wataru

Lecturers:

• Ichinokawa Yasutaka (Tokyo)

Yellow Peril and Eugenics: Bio-Politics in Japan, 1895-1945

• Umemura Maki (London)

Multiple Modernities in Medicine: Perspectives from the Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry

• Christian Oberländer (Halle)

Introduction of Health Insurance in Japan as a matter of state and communal concern

Commentators:

• Suzuki Akihito (Tokyo)
• Cord Eberspächer (Düsseldorf)
• Ichikawa Tomoo (Shanghai)

19:00 Conference Dinner

Venue: Mönchshof, Talamtstraße 6, 06108 Halle (Saale)

Saturday, March 12 2011

Venue: Lecture Hall 13, Löwengebäude of Martin-Luther-University Halle Wittenberg (MLU)

09:00-12:00 4. Section Medical Science, Medical Practice: The Patient in his World

Chairperson:

• Cord Eberspächer

Lecturers:

• Umehara Hideharu, Jörg Vögele (Düsseldorf)

Multiple Modernisation in Medicine: The Case of Qingdao under German, Japanese and Chinese Rule

• Chang Chiungfang (Tokyo)

Politics of Reproductive Technologies in Taiwan: Examined from the Changing View of Modern Medicine

• Heiner Fangerau, Maria Schmitz, Florian Braune (Ulm)

The concept of patient autonomy and "informed consent" in the Chinese cultural area: Diverging movements in medical-historical contexts contributing to the international history of (medical) ethics

• Cornelia Bogen (Beijing and and Europe)

Communication in Crisis: On multiple forms of health care communication in China

Commentators:

Ichinokawa Yasutaka (Tokyo)

• Heinz Schott (Bonn)

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-16:00 Young Scholars Forum

Chairperson:

• Heinz Schott

Lecturers:

• Franziska Steffen (Halle)

Japan‘ s early Experience with Modern Medicine: The Case of Renmonkyo

• Nancy Jahn (Halle)

How German became the Language of Science in Japan during the Meiji Period

• Florian Becker (Halle)

Introduction of Criminology in Japan

• Lu Yao (Beijing)

The Identity of Christian Faith in China

• Wang Wangqiu (Düsseldorf)

Hackmann’s research on Chinese Buddhism

• Dorothée Döpfer (Düsseldorf)

Commentators:

• Klaus Mühlhahn (Berlin)
• Iris Borowy (Rostock)

16:00-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Summary and Final Comments:

Medicine as a Medium of Multiple Modernities. Possibilities of an International Network of Research

Summary:

• Heinz Schott (Bonn)

Final Comments:

• Cao Shuji (Shanghai)
• Iijima Wataru (Tokyo)
• Wolfgang Knöbl (Göttingen)

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