This is a directory of scholars around the world who study the history, anthropology, or sociology of Chinese medicine.
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Gene ANDERSON

Bridie ANDREWS-MINEHAN

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Don BAKER
Linda L. BARNES

Carol BENEDICT
James A. BENN
Daniel BENSKY
Daria BERG
Christine BODENSCHATZ
Francesca BRAY
E. Bruce BROOKS
John BUDER
Paul BUELL
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CAI Jingfeng
Elena CAPRARI
Chia-Feng CHANG
Yuan-ling CHAO
Hsiu-fen CHEN
Hsien-yu CHIN
Shih-ch'i CHIN
Pingyi CHU
Christopher CULLEN
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Samantha DES FORGES
Vijaya J. DESHPANDE
Catherine DESPEUX  
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Benjamin ELMAN
Ute ENGELHARDT  
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FANG Xiaoping
Judith FARQUHAR
Carney FISHER
Bob FLAWS
Carsten FLOHR
Heiner FRUEHAUF
Daiwie FU
Charlotte FURTH
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Rene GORIS
Zibin GUO 
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Marta HANSON
Daniel Dean HARRINGTON
Donald HARPER
TJ HINRICHS
HONG Wuli
HSIUNG Ping-chen
Elisabeth HSU
HU Weiguo
San-Yi HUANG
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Paul KATZ
Ho KIM
Arthur KLEINMAN
Michael Reid KREUZER
KUO Wen-hua
Shigehisa KURIYAMA
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Pierre de LA ROBERTIE
James Z. LEE
Jender LEE
Hsiang-lin (Sean) LEI
Angela K. LEUNG
LIN Fu-shih
Dennis LINHARES BARSTED

LIU Shi-yung
Xun LIU
Vivienne LO
Susan O. LONG  
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Éric MARIÉ

Makoto MAYANAGI
Henry McCANN
John McDONALD
James (Jim) McGOUGH
Angelika C. MESSNER
Wolfgang MICHEL-ZAITSU
Laurel MITTENTHAL  
John P.C. MOFFETT
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Ernesto NASTARI-MICHELI

Margaret W. S. NG
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Frédéric OBRINGER  
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Da'an PAN
Therese PARSONS
Veronica PEARSON
Rodo PFISTER

William POWELL
Fabrizio PREGADIO
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Michelle RENSHAW
 
Lisa RAPHALS
Orlando Mejía RIVERA

Jason ROBERTSON
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Rony SAPIR
Volker SCHEID
John Wm. SCHIFFELER

Franz-Rudolph A. SCHMIDT
Andrew SCHONEBAUM
Hugh SHAPIRO
Nathan SIVIN
Lowell SKAR
Hillary SMITH

Richard J. SMITH
Stephen R. SMITH
Al STONE
Nikolaus SUCHER

William C. SUMMERS
Mike SZONYI
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Iven TAO
Kim TAYLOR

Michele THOMPSON
Xiaoli TIAN 
Rey TIQUIA  
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Paul U. UNSCHULD
 
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Elena VALUSSI
Isabeau VOLLHARDT
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Aihe WANG

Hsiu-yun WANG
Jun WANG
Tony WANG
Helene McMurtrie WATSON

Lorraine WILCOX
Sabine WILMS
Robert WRIGHT
Yi-Li WU  
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Chen XIN
Xiaoqun (David) XU  
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Xiangyin YANG
Robin D.S. YATES
Ka-che YIP
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Emma ZEVIK
Mei ZHAN
Daqing ZHANG
Everett Yuehong ZHANG

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Gene ANDERSON

Professor
Department. of Anthropology
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521-0418

Tel: (909) 787-5523

E-mail:  gene@ucr.edu

Areas of interest:  Cultural and political ecology; medical anthropology.  In Chinese medicine:  Chinese traditional nutrition and nutritional therapy; medical ethnobiology; everyday medical practice in traditional Chinese society.

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Bridie ANDREWS-MINEHAN

Assistant Professor
Department of History
Bentley College
175 Forest Street
Waltham, MA  02452

E-mail: bmienhan@bentley.edu

Areas of Interest: medicine and empire, popular therapeutics in Chinese (and Western) medicine, the international trade in medicinals, ca. 18th-20th centuries

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Don BAKER

Associate Professor
Department of Asian Studies
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z2 CANADA

Tel.: 604-822-4478

E-mail: dbaker@interchange.ubc.ca

Research interests:  I am an historian of Korean culture, particularly traditional religion, philosophy, and science. Recently I published an article-length history of Chinese medicine in Korea.

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Linda L. BARNES



Associate Professor
Boston University School of Medicine
91 East Concord Street, 4102
Boston, MA 02139
USA

TEL: 617-414-4534 (office)
FAX: 617-414-3679

E-mail: lbarnes@tiac.net
URL:  www.bmc.org/special/pediatrics/bhlp

Areas of interest: My research focuses on the social history and anthropology of Western
perceptions of, and responses to, Chinese medicine and other healing traditions.

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Carol BENEDICT

Associate Professor
Department of History
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C. 20057
USA

T: (1) (202) 687-5813
F: (1) (703) 841-1030
E-mail: benedicc@gusun.georgetown.edu

Areas of Interest: social history of disease, public health in twentieth-century China, plague, leprosy, social control of disease

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James A. BENN

Department of Religious Studies 
McMaster University
University Hall, Room 105
Hamilton, Ontario
L8S 4K1
CANADA
 

T: (905) 525 9140, ext 24210
F: (905) 525 8161

E-mail: bennjam@mcmaster.ca

Areas of Interest: Chinese Buddhism, history of self-immolation in China, tea

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Daniel BENSKY


Seattle Institute of Oriental Medicine
916 NE 65th Street, Suite B
Seattle, WA 98115
USA

(T) (206) 524-2724 (w)
F: (1) (206) 526-1932
E-mail: dbensky@siom.edu
Webpage: www.siom.edu

Areas of Interest: Han medical texts, Shanghan lun, variety of approaches to disease in Chinese medicine (modern and premodern)

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Daria BERG


Lecturer
Department of East Asian Studies
University of Durham
Durham DH1 3TH
UK

T: (44) (191) 374-3249
F: (44) (191) 374-3242
E-mail: d.d.berg@durham.ac.uk

Areas of Interest: Ming/Qing fiction and history (including medical practices), contemporary Chinese fiction

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Christine BODENSCHATZ


PhD Candidate
Ludwig-Maximillian University, Munich

[Address:]
Elligersweg 16
22307 Hamburg
GERMANY

T: (49) (40) 630-6351

Areas of Interest: Chinese Medicine, Song to Ming, esp. fangjixue

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Francesca BRAY

Professor of Social Anthropology
University of Edinburgh
Adam Ferguson Building, George Square
Edinburgh EH 8 9LL, U.K.

Tel: (44) 131-651-3863
Fax: (44) 131-650-3945

E-mail: francesca.bray@ed.ac.uk

Areas of Interest: reproductive technologies and cultures in late imperial China

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E. Bruce BROOKS

Research Professor of Chinese
Warring States Project
University of Massachusetts at Amherst

39 Hillside Road
Northampton MA 01060-2119 USA

Tel: 413-584-1810
Fax: 413-582-9119
E-mail: brooks@asianlan.umass.edu

Areas of Interest: All aspects of Warring States history and society, including growth of specialization in medicine and the geographical sources of materia medica.

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John BUDER

Post Office Box 260016
University Station
Madison, Wisconsin 53726

E-mail: Buder-JJ@USA.NET
Web site: http://liu.se/tema/cgi-bin/show.cgi?path_to_script=inhph&index=209

Areas of Interest: Theory, production, distribution, adoption, and use of smallpox vaccine lymph from calves to 1898, its impact on global practices. Member of International Network for the History of Public Health (INHPH) and the Sigerist Circle for the History of Medicine.

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Dr. Paul D. BUELL

6206 25th Ave., N.E.
Seattle, Washington, 98115

T: (206) 528-0257
F: (206) 522-2720

E-mail: pbuell@speakeasy.net

Areas of Interest: History of Chinese herbal medicine; Islamic medicine in China; Chinese medicine in the United States. Lead author of study and translation of theYin-shan cheng-yao (read book description) and Historical Dictionary of Chinese Medicine (Scarecrow, 2004).

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CAI Jingfeng


Research Fellow, Professor
China Institute for History of Medicine, China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine
No. 18, Beixingcang
Dongzhimen Nei
Beijing 100700
PRC

T: (86) (1) 6401-7304
F: (86) (1) 6401-7304

Areas of Interest: Chinese medical history, medical history of Chinese minorities, Tibetan medical history

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Elena CAPRARI

Independent scholar
Piazza del Municipio 7
52043-Castiglion Fiorentino(Tuscany)-Italy

Tel.&Fax:+39.0575.680748
E-mail address: ecaprarie@netscape.net

Areas of Interest:  Field of study is linguistics.  Current research focuses on  the definitions of the acupoints in Lingshu and Suwen

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Chia-Feng CHANG


Department of History
National Taiwan University
1, Sec.4, Roosevelt Road
Taipei, Taiwan
TAIWAN

F: (886) (2) 362-0028
E-mail: ccfchang@ccms.ntu.edu.tw

Areas of Interest: pediatrics and epidemics in Chinese history. (See abstract of Ph.D thesis)

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Yuan-ling CHAO


Assistant Professor
History Department
Middle Tennessee State University
Box 23, MTSU
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
USA

T: (1) (615) 898-2629
F: (1) (615) 893-2711 [home & fax]
E-mail: ychao@a1.mtsu.edu

Areas of Interest: relationship between medicine and society in late imperial China, physicians in Suzhou, Three Emperor's Temples, experience versus knowledge in traditional Chinese medicine.

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Hsien-yu CHIN

PhD candidate
History Department
SUNY at Stony Brook
New York, NY 11790
USA

T: (1) (516) 216-5137
E-mail: hchin@ic.sunysb.edu

Areas of Interest: Problematics: gender/medicine/colonialism; specialization: public health,women's diseases,psychiatry; Fields: Modern Taiwan medical history, Modern China medical history, America medical history since the Civil War

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Hsiu-fen CHEN

PhD Candidate
Department of History
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London

Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
United Kingdom

E-mail: hc5@soas.ac.uk

Areas of Interest: Madness in pre-modern China; psychiatry in modern European; medicine and religions in cultural history.

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Shih-ch'i CHIN


PhD Candidate
Department of History
National Taiwan University
Institute of History and Philology, Rm 606
Academia Sinica
Nankang, Taipei 115
TAIWAN

E-mail: drc@pluto.ihp.sinica.edu.tw
E-mail: drc1162@ms9.hinet.net

Areas of Interest: Medical and social history of ancient China

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Pingyi CHU


Research Fellow
Institute of History and Philology
Academia Sinica
Nankang, Taipei 115
TAIWAN

T: (886) (2) 652-3102
F: (886) (2) 786-8834
E-mail: kaihsin@pluto.ihp.sinica.edu.tw

Areas of Interest: history of science, astronomy, and medicine

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Christopher CULLEN

Director
Needham Research Institute
8, Sylvester Road
Cambridge, England
CB3 9AF

Areas of Interest: Chinese science and medicine, seen in broad social and historical context

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Samantha DES FORGES


MA Candidate
History Department
Keele University
Newcastle Under Lyme
Staffordshire
UK

T: (44) (1782) 245-440
E-mail: des@super.net.uk
p7c63@keele.ac.uk

Areas of Interest: effect of the political upheaval of the Cultural Revolution on health care in China

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Vijaya J. DESHPANDE


Research Fellow
Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
Pune, 411004 INDIA

[Home]
76/37A, Erandawana
Pune 411004, India.

Tel. 91-20-361282

E-mail: jvd@pn2.vsnl.net.in

Areas of Interest: History of Ancient Indian Science and Technology, especially alchemy, chemistry and medicine. Transmission of scientific ideas between China and India, related to the above fields.

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Catherine DESPEUX

Professor of University
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris
2, rue de Lille
75007 Paris
FRANCE

T: (33) (47) 50.12.19
F: (33) (47) 50.39.22

Areas of Interest: Six Dynasties and Song period representations of the Chinese body, health and daily life (_yangsheng_)

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Benjamin ELMAN

Professor of East Asian Studies and History
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544 USA

Tel:: 609-258-4287
Fax: 609-258-6984
E-mail: elman@Princeton.edu

Webpage: http://www.princeton.edu/~classbib/

Areas of Interest: History of Chinese science

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Ute ENGELHARDT

Postdoctoral lecturer candidate
Institute for East Asian Studies
University of Munich
Kaulbachstr. 51 a
D-80802 Mnchen
GERMANY

T: (49) (89) 271-9522
F: (49) (89) 271-0703

Areas of Interest: Tang and Han history, relations between Taoism and Chinese medicine, dietetics, yangsheng, qigong, taiji quan, modern application of Chinese medicine

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FANG Xiaoping

Ph. D Candidate
Department of History
Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
National University of Singapore
Kent Ridge Crescent
119260, Singapore

E-mail: g0202081@nus.edu.sg
             nusxiaoping@yahoo.com.cn

Tel: (65) 9749 5718

Areas of interest:  At present, I am writing my Ph. D dissertation on barefoot doctors and
Cooperative Medical Services in rural China, 1949-1983.

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Judith FARQUHAR

Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
CB # 3115
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3115
USA

T: (1) (919) 962-8090, (1) (919) 962-1243
F: (1) (919) 962-1613
E-mail: farquhar@email.unc.edu

Areas of Interest: contemporary practice of Chinese medicine in China, medical anthropology, social theory, Chinese popular culture

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Carney FISHER


Centre for Asian Studies
University of Adelaide
Adelaide, SA 5000
AUSTRALIA

E-mail: cfisher@arts.adelaide.eu.au

Areas of Interest: plague in China

 

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Bob FLAWS

Lic. Ac., Dipl. Ac. & C.H.
Editor-in-Chief, Blue Poppy Press
5441 Western Ave. #2
Boulder, CO 80301
Tel: 303-447-8372
Fax: 303-245-8362
Email: bob@bluepoppy.com
URL: www.bluepoppy.com

Areas of interest:  All aspects of Chinese medical history

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Carsten FLOHR


Clinical medical student
Oxford Medical School
Balliol College, Oxford OX1 3UH
UK

T: (44) (1865) 271-557
E-mail: carsten.flohr@balliol.ox.ac.uk

Areas of Interest: "Wuyun liuqi" and itinerant doctors

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Heiner FRUEHAUF


Associate Professor
Department of Classical Chinese Medicine
National College of Naturopathic Medicine
049 SW Porter Street
Portland, OR 97201
USA

T: (1) (503) 499-4343 ext. 188
F: (1) (503) 297-0957
E-mail: heiner@teleport.com

Areas of Interest: Fundamental concepts of Chinese medicine as introduced in Warring States, Qin, and Han cosmology; relationship between Daoism and Chinese medicine; yangsheng; gejia xueshuo; fangji xue

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Daiwie FU


Professor
Institute of History
National Tsing-Hua University
Hsinchu
TAIWAN

T: (886) (3) 571-5131 x4468
F: (886) (3) 571-6780

E-mail: dwfu@mx.nthu.edu.tw

Areas of interest: contemporary cultural history of medicine in Taiwan, gender/body/medicine in Taiwan, modern European history of gender/medicine, sexuality/sexology/Foucault

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Charlotte FURTH


Professor
Department of History
University of Southern California
University Park
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0034
USA

T: (1) (310) 837-9074, (1) (213) 740-1668
F: (1) (213) 740-6999
E-mail: furth@mizar.usc.edu

Areas of Interest: history of medicine in late imperial China, medicine and gender; medical case histories.

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René GORIS

MA Health Sciences with emphasis on medical anthropology
Oriental College, Intercultural Open University
Haarlemmermeerstraat 112-116
1058 KG Amsterdam, Holland

Tel:  0031(0)204081228
E-mail:
info_OC@hrih.net, yycrene@xs4all.nl 
Website: www.orientalcollege.com

Areas of Interest:  Chinese medicines and psychology, religious culture and Chinese medicine conceptualisation, modern history of Chinese medicine. Qigong methodology as a tool to clarify Chinese medicine terminology.

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Zibin GUO


Lecturer
Department of Social Medicine/Division on Aging
Harvard Medical School
643 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
USA

T: (1) (617) 432-2618
F: (1) (617) 734-4432
E-mail: guoz@warren.med.harvard.edu

Areas of Interest: Culture and medicine; cultural and social construction of health beliefs and health care behavior; self-care; cross cultural mental health in aging; research methods

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Marta HANSON

Assistant Professor
Department of the History of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
Welch Library, 3rd floor
1900 E. Monument Street
Baltimore, MD 21205-2113

E-mail: mhanson4@jhmi.edu

Areas of Interest: the history of medicine and disease, Qing history, science studies, gender studies. Dissertation, 1997: "Inventing a Tradition in Chinese Medicine: From Universal Canon to Local Medical Knowledge in South China, the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century"

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Daniel Dean HARRINGTON

Practitioner/teacher of internal Chinese Arts
Guang Ping Yang Tai Chi Chuan Japan

JAMSF - Japan Acupuncture and Moxibustion Skills Foundation
2-23-14-101 Ohashi Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-0044 Japan

Tel: 03-3485-4160
E-mail: ddh@gol.com
Web site: www2.gol.com/users/ddh

Areas of interest: I have a general interest in traditional Chinese Medicine and teach and practice various internal arts of China. I participate in activities and study groups associated with JAMSF.

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Donald HARPER

Professor 
East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
University of Chicago
5801 South Ellis Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637 


E-mail: dharper@uchicago.edu

Areas of Interest: Warring States, Qin, and Han natural philosophy and occult thought; Mawangdui medical manuscripts; Chinese macrobiotics.  Author of  Early Chinese Medical Literature (London:  Kegan Paul, 1997)

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TJ HINRICHS

Assistant Professor of History
450 McGraw Hall
Department of History
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-4601

E-mail: th289@cornell.edu
URL: http://www.arts.cornell.edu/history/faculty-department-hinrichs.php

Areas of Interest: Song period history, demonic diseases and responses to them, contagion, responses to epidemics, official attempts to disseminate medical knowledge and "transform" local customs

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HONG Wuli

Associate Research Fellow, Associate Professor
China Institute for History of Medicine, China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine
No. 18, Beixingcang
Dongzhimen Nei
Beijing 100700
PRC

T: (86) (1) 6401-7304
F: (86) (1) 6401-7304

Areas of Interest: Chinese medical history, minority medicine, Tibetan medicine

Areas of Interest: Forthcoming dissertation entitled "Opium Smoking in late Qing China: Chinese and Western Responses to a Social Problem, 1858-1915"

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HSIUNG Ping-chen


Research Fellow
Institute of Modern History
Academia Sinica
Nankang, Taipei 115
TAIWAN

E-mail: mhpch@ccvax.sinica.edu.tw

Areas of Interest: History of pediatrics

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Elisabeth HSU

University Lecturer
Course Director for M Sc and M Phil in Medical Anthropology
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Oxford University

51 Banbury Road
Oxford OX2 6JB

Tel:  (01865) 274.681
Fax: (01865) 274.630
E-mail: elisabeth.hsu@anthro.ox.ac.uk
URL (general): 
http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/degrees/medical_intro.shtml 
URL (publications list): http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/staff/publications/elizabeth.hsu.shtml

Areas of interest: Chinese medicine (contemporary practices in the PRC and Africa; Han period texts), medical anthropology, anthropology of Southwest China

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HU Weiguo

Postgraduate, Assistant Director of Acupuncture Clinic
Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion
China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine
No.18, Beixincang, Dongzhimen Nei
Beijing, CHINA

Tel/Fax: 86-10-64062467
E-mail: Huwg@263.net
Web page: http://www.acupuncture.ac.cn

Areas of Interest: History of qigong, philosophy of Taoism, medical anthropology, and TCM diagnosis. Now using the QOL to evaluate the effect of acupressure, qigong.

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San-Yi HUANG

TCM Practitioner
RMIT (Melbourne), Nanjing University of TCM

170 The Avenue Coburg
Victoria, Australia 3058

E-mail: san-yi@usa.net

Areas of Interest: Huangdi neijing and all TCM literature

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Paul KATZ

Assistant Professor
Institute of History
National Central University
Chung-li 32054
TAIWAN

T: (886) (2) 652-3113
F: (886) (3) 425-5123
E-mail: hssfpkatz@ccvax.sinica.edu.tw

Areas of Interest: social and religious history of Late Imperial China, especially Taoist and popular rituals to deal with epidemics; plague cults and festivals in late imperial and modern Taiwan

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Ho KIM

PhD Candidate
Department of Korean History
Seoul National University
151-742
Seoul
KOREA

T: (82) (2) 880-6175
F: (82) (2) 871-3526
E-mail: hojy@plaza1.snu.ac.kr
Webpage: plaza.snu.ac.kr/~hojy

Areas of Interest: Medical relationship between China and Korea in pre-modern period; discourse on 'BODY' in Korea

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Arthur KLEINMAN


Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology and Psychiatry
Departments of Anthropology and Social Medicine
Harvard University
330 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA

T: (1) 617/495-3846
E-mail: gillespi@wjh.harvard.edu

Areas of Interest: Illness, experience, and work of doctoring in Chinese communities; depression; neurasthenia; political violence, suicide; and mental health care responses.

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Michael Reid KREUZER

Student of Medicine Buddha, Practitioner of Chinese, Tibetan and
East Indian Ayurvedic herbology

Medicine Buddha Healing Center at the Institute for World
Religions, and the Ayurvedic Institute

2304 McKinley Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94703  USA
Tel: (1) (510) 848-3440
Fax: (1) (510) 548-4551

E-mail: mkreuzer@medicine-buddha.org
Website:  http://www.medicine-buddha.org/

Areas of Interest: Buddhism's influence on Chinese, Tibetan, and Indian medicine; comparison of herbs, mantras, mandalas, mudras, color, sound, and aromatherapy in China, Tibet, India.

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KUO Wen-hua

Doctoral Student
Program in Science, Technology and Society
Massachussetts Institute of Technology

[address]:
305 Memorial Drive #517B
Cambridge MA 02139
Tel&Fax: 617-225-9843

E-mail: whkuo@MIT.EDU

Areas of Interest: traditional and Western medicine in society, interactions between patients and those carrying out medical policies, body knowledge and responses to hospitalization

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Shigehisa KURIYAMA

Professor
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Harvard University
2 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA

T: (1) (617) 496-0926
Email: hkuriyam@fas.harvard.edu

Areas of Interest: Comparative history of medicine in East Asia and Europe

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Pierre de LA ROBERTIE


Universite de Rennes 2 Haute-Bretagne
U.F.R. de Langues - Departement multilangue
6, avenue Gaston Berger
35043 RENNES Cedex

Tel. : +33 02 99 14 17 01

E-mail : Pierre.Delarobertie@Uhb.fr
Web page: http://www.uhb.fr

(home)
16, rue du Thabor
35000 Rennes
Tel. & fax : +33 (02) 99 36 71 25

Areas of interest : The formation of Chinese medicine around Han period, with special reference to the Neijing; the conception of the Body in early Chinese medicine.

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James Z. LEE

Professor of History and Sociology
Director, Center for Chinese Studies
University of Michigan

(Mailing address)
ICPSR
University of Michigan
Institute for Social Research
P.O. Box 1248
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248

Tel: (1) (734) 763-6308 (Center for Chinese Studies)
       (1) (734) 763-4517 (History Department)

Fax: (1) (734) 647-8200 (ICSPR)
        (1) (734) 647-8700

E-ma
il: jql@umich.edu

Areas of Interest: Chinese medicine and demographic behavior in late imperial and contemporary China

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Jender LEE


Assistant Research Fellow
Institute of History and Philology
Academia Sinica
Nankang, Taipei 115
TAIWAN

T: (886) (2) 652-3129
F: (886) (2) 786-8834
E-mail: jender@pluto.ihp.sinica.edu.tw

Areas of interest: women's history, family history, legal history, childbirth in early medieval China

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Hsiang-lin (Sean) LEI

Assistant Professor
Institute of History
National Tsing-hua University
Hsinchu, Taiwan 30043

Tel: (03)5715131 Ext. 4479
Fax: (03)5716780

E-mail: hlei@hist.nthu.edu.tw

Areas of interest: science studies, evolutionary theory, 20th cent. Chinese medicine. (See list of recent publications)

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Angela K. LEUNG


Research Fellow
Sun Yatsen Institute of Social Sciences and Philosophy
Academia Sinica
Nangang, Taipei 115
TAIWAN

F: (886) (2) 785-4160
E-mail: tpleung@ccvax.sinica.edu.tw

Areas of Interest: social history of medicine, medical institutions of the Song-Qing, leprosy, syphilis, small pox

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LIN Fu-shih


Associate Research Fellow
Institute of History and Philology
Academia Sinica
Nankang, Taipei 115
TAIWAN, R.O.C.

T: (886) (2) 652-3189
F: (886) (2) 786-8834
E-mail: fslin@pluto.ihp.sinica.edu.tw

Areas of Interest: history of religions (especially Chinese shamanism and Taoism), history of diseases and healing, popular culture

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Dennis LINHARES BARSTED

Ph.D candidate 

IMS Instituto de Medicina Social
UERJ Universidade do Estado do Rio de
Janeiro
Brazil

Mailing Address:
Rua Carvalho Azevedo 39 apto 201,
Lagoa,
22.471-220 Rio de Janeiro, RJ,
Brazil

E-mail address: dennis.linhares@pobox.com

Brief statement of research interests: Presently doing research work for my Ph.D dissertation on Chinese Medicine. Focus on certain categories of Classical Chinese Medicine which have been excluded or inadequately treated by the "Traditional Chinese Medicine" school of thought, with special emphasis on the influence of classical cosmology/cosmogony on Classical Chinese Medicine. Chinese medicine (contemporary practices; Han Period texts).

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LIU Shi-yung

Research Assistant

Institute of Taiwanese History
Academia Sinica
Taipei, 115 Taiwan

T: (2) 2788-0539 ext. 387
F: (2) 788-1956

E-mail: liumike@gate.sinica.edu.tw

Areas of Interest: I am working on a thesis entitled "Medical Reform in Colonial Taiwan." My goal is to understand how Japanese used modern medicine to tempering Taiwanese society. I will fully examine subjects such as tropical medicine, hygienic policing, and demographic analysis.

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Xun LIU

Assistant Professor
History Department
Rutgers University
16 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Tel: (732) 932-7398,  (732)-613-0168
Fax: (732) 932-6763

Email: xunliu@rci.rutgers.edu

Areas of interest: history of Daoism, Daoist alchemy practice during late imperial China, folk and Daoist healing techniques of the Ming and Qing period.

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Vivienne LO

Lecturer
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine
University College, London

From January 2005:
210 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE

From Spring 2006:
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE


Tel:  020 76798113 
E-mail: v.lo@ucl.ac.uk 
URL: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/lo.html

Areas of Interest: Excavated medical texts from the early Han period development of daoyin, origins of acupuncture.

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Susan O. LONG


Associate Professor of Anthropology
Department of Sociology
John Carroll University
University Height, OH 44118
USA

T: (1) (216) 397-1685
F: (1) (216) 397-4376
E-mail: long@jcvaxa.jcu.edu

Areas of Interest: Biomedicine in Japan; mutual influence of East Asian medicine and biomedicine in Japan, China, and US; Bioethics and culture

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Éric MARIÉ

Professor and research director
Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Nanchang, CHINA

Supply professor
Université de Genève
Faculté des lettres
Genève, SUISSE

Postal address :
La Bessière
79370 Vitré, FRANCE

Tel. (33) (0)5 49 32 88 50
Fax (33) (0)5 49 32 86 32

E-mail:  emarie@wanadoo.fr 
                
ericmarie01@hotmail.com

Areas of Interest:  Comparative history of medicine (internal aspects) in China and Europe, pulse diagnosis, internal medicine, theory, practice and classical books.

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Makoto MAYANAGI


Professor
Faculty of Humanities
Ibaraki University
2-1-1, Bunkyo, Mito 310-0056
JAPAN

T: (81) (29) 228-8194

F: (81) (29) 228-8194
E-mail: makoto@mito.ipc.ibaraki.ac.jp
Webpage: http://www.hum.ibaraki.ac.jp/chubun/mayanagi.html

Areas of Interest: Comparative history of medicine in China and Japan, Bibliography of medical books in China and Japan

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Henry McCANN

Practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Private Practice

Instructor
Eastern School of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine
North Jersey Center for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
37 Kings Road, Suite 205
Madison, NJ 07940

Tel: (973) 660-0110
E-mail:
info@newjerseyacupuncture.com
URL: www.newjerseyacupuncture.com

Areas of interest: Application of classic texts (especially Neijing Suwen and Lingshu) and Yijing in modern clinical practice; general Chinese medical history; Daoist internal alchemy cultivation techniques

 

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John McDONALD

President
Australian Council for Chinese Medicine Education (ACCME)

Lecturer
Australian College of Natural Medicine (Brisbane & Gold Coast)
University of Western Sydney
5 Quartz Place, Carrara, Qld, 4211
Australia

Tel: (07) 55711166, (0416) 251690

E-mail: twindragon@bigpond.com

Areas of interest:  History of acupuncture, different schools of thought, history of points and channels, development of TCM theory esp systems of pattern differentiation

 

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James (Jim) McGOUGH

Independent Scholar (Affiliate Researcher)
University of Washington

[Address]
7531 14th Avenue Northeast
Seattle WA 98115
USA

E-mail: jmcgough@nwlink.com

Areas of Interest: "Traditional" concepts of drug dependence and the cure of such dependence; the use of opium and opioids in medicine.

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Angelika C. MESSNER

Assistant Professor
Institute for Chinese Studies 
Kiel University
Leibnizstr. 10
D-24118 Kiel
Germany

Tel. (0049) 431/880-1727
fax. (0049) 431/8801598
E-mail:  messner@sino.uni-kiel.de

Areas of interest: History of Chinese medicine  (especially late imperial China), theory and practice, body history, emotions within the medical discourse in pre-republican medical texts.  Ph.D. dissertation examined medical discourse of madness in late imperial China.  Current book manuscript project uses 17th century medical texts to examine the history of the body.

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Wolfgang MICHEL-ZAITSU


Professor
Institute of Languages and Cultures
Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies
Kyushu University
Ropponmatsu, Chuoku
Fukuoka-City 810
JAPAN

T/F: (81) (92) 726-4690
E-mail: michel@rc.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Webpage: http://www.rc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~michel/

Areas of Interest: history of Euro-Japanese cultural relations, introduction of Western medicine in Japan, introduction of Eastern medicine in Europe)

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Laurel MITTENTHAL


PhD Candidate
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Harvard University
2 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA

T: (1) (617) 496-6005
F: (1) (617) 496-6040
E-mail: mittenth@fas.harvard.edu

Areas of interest: Cultural and intellectual history of Song-Yuan-Ming China; particular interest in using food- and medicine-related sources for doing cultural history

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John P.C. MOFFETT

Librarian
East Asian History of Science Library
Needham Research Institute
8 Sylvester Road
Cambridge CB3 9AF
UK

 

Tel: (0)1223-311545 ext.223
E-mail:  jm10019@cam.ac.uk
Web site: www.nri.org.uk 

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Ernesto NASTARI-MICHELI

"Contract" Professor
Scuola di Specializzazione in Agopuntura e Medicina Tradizionale Cinese
Università degli Studi di Urbino
Via Bramante 17
 61029 Urbino (Ps)
Italy

Home mailing address: 
Via dei Mirti 16
02100 Rieti, Italy

Tel. : 0039-746200145 (home)

E-mail: ernestonm@hotmail.com

Areas of interest: Natural sciences and chemistry in ancient Chinese literature. At present I am studying the Rome manuscript of the imperial materia medica "Ben Cao Pin Hui Jing Yao" A. D. 1505

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Margaret W. S. NG

Independent scholar

Block 232 Bain Street #17-21
Singapore 180232

Tel : (65) 337-9468, (65) 3382774
Fax: (65) 337-9468

E-mail:  tuzhi@yahoo.com

Areas of interest: Traditional Chinese medicine, history of Chinese medicine, gender studies, and general Chinese history.

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Frédéric OBRINGER


Chargé de conférences
École Pratique des Hautes Études, 4e section
Sciences historiques et philologiques
45-47, rue des Écoles
75005 Paris
FRANCE

[Address:]
Route de Laval
77120 Maupertuis
FRANCE

T: (33) (64) 03-07-20 (H)
F: (33) (40) 46-31-39 (O)

Areas of Interest: Cultural and technical history of pharmaceutics; history of natural subtsances, history of diseases, history of the concept of nature

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Da'an PAN


Assistant Professor in Chinese Civilization
Program in Chinese Civilization
Muhlenberg College
Allentown, PA 18104
USA

T: (1) (610) 821-3642/[H] (1) (610) 437-2788
F: (1) (610) 821-3234
E-mail: pan@hal.muhlberg.edu

Areas of Interest: Traditional Chinese Medicine in relation to Chinese philosophy and Chinese literature; clinical theory of TCM

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Therese PARSONS, BPhil LicAc MBAcC

Research Coordinator
Acupuncture Foundation of Ireland
Flat 12 Hillcote Mansions
2 Atlantic Rd
Weston-super-mare BS23 2DG
North Somerset, United Kingdom


T: (44) (01) (934) 417882

E-mail: thereseparsons@bt.com

Areas of Interest: Classical texts, clinical trials, research methodology, TCM, systems approach, concepts in quantum physics, measuring health, biomedical approach to TCM research (limitations and advantages).

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Veronica PEARSON


Professor
Department of Social Work and Social Administration
The University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam Road
HONG KONG

T: (852) 28592070/28592288
F: (852) 28587604
E-mail: vpearson@hkucc.hku.hk

Areas of Interest: Mental health services and policy in China and Hong Kong; gender issues in China and Hong Kong including commercial sexuality; disability in China and Hong Kong

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Rodo PFISTER

Dr. Phil
University of Zurich, Switzerland

[Address]
Friedensgasse 37
CH-4056 Basel Switzerland

Tel/Fax: (0)61.381.62.19
E-mail address: rodoX@gmx.net

Areas of interest: Early chinese medicine, sexual body techniques, manuscripts (Mawangdui, Zhangjiashan etc.)

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Tina PHILLIPS

PhD Candidate
History Department
University of Pittsburgh
3P01 Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA  15260
USA

 Tel: 1-724-532-2073

E-mail: tmpst27@pitt.edu

Areas of interest:  history of western obstetrics and gynecology in China, gender and medicine, medical professionalization, Chinese Republican and Nationalist health policy


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William POWELL

Associate Professor
East Asian Languages and Cultures
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Tel: (805) 893-4455

E-mail: bpowell@humanitas.ucsb.edu

Areas of Interest: Sacred space in late imperial china; the relationship between religious and medical understandings and uses of the body.

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Fabrizio PREGADIO

Technische Universität Berlin
Institut für Philosophie, TEL 14-7
Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7
10587 Berlin, Germany

E-mail: fabrizio.pregadio@tu-berlin.de

Areas of Interest: Taoism, Chinese alchemy (waidan and neidan)

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Lisa RAPHALS

Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages
University of California
Riverside CA 92521-0321 USA

T: (1)(909) 787-5007 x1270
F: (1)(909) 787-2160

(home)
102 E. Manfield Street
Riverside CA 92507
Tel: (909) 781-7172

E-mail: raphals@citrus.ucr.edu

Areas of Interest: Recent publications include Lisa Raphals, Sharing the Light: Representations of Women and Virtue in Early China. Albany NY: SUNY Press, 1998; Lisa Raphals, "The Treatment of Women in a Second-Century Medical Casebook." Chinese Science, 1998:7-28.

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Michelle RENSHAW

University of Adelaide, South Australia
19 Blackler Street
Semaphore, South AUSTRALIA 5019

Tel/fax: 0011 618 8242 2957

E-mail address: michelle.renshaw@adelaide.edu.au

Research interests:  The history of hospitals (medical institutions) in China, cross-cultural transfer of
institutions and technologies, architecture, financing, administration. PhD dissertation (December 2003) entitled:  "Accomodating the Chinese: the American Hospital in China, 1880-1920."  

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Orlando Mejía RIVERA

Professor
University of Caldas
Manizales, Caldas
COLOMBIA

[Home address]
Carrera 22 No 56-24 Apartamento 404
Manizales, Caldas
COLOMBIA

T: 85-91-61

E-mail: omrvava@emtelsa.multi.net.co

Areas of Interest: History of medicine and Chinese philosophy. I am currently writing a book on the history of Asian medicine, especially Chinese medicine and Indian medicine.

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Jason ROBERTSON

Licensed acupuncturist
Oriental Medical Center
509 Olive Way, Suite 1338
Seattle, WA  98101
USA

T: (1) 206) 920-5205

E-mail:  kentuckyginseng@yahoo.com

URL: www.orientalmedicalcenter.com

Areas of Interest:  Application of classical Chinese medicine in western clinical settings, translation and clinical interpretation of classical texts.  Current projects focus on Nanjing studies, and classical channel theory.

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Rony SAPIR

Director of Study
Xin-Chinese Philosophy and Medicine Center
3/A Hazohar Street Tel-Aviv, 62507
ISRAEL

E-mail: sapir@netvision.net.il

Areas of Interest: For 10 years I have been working on the connection between Chinese philosophy and medicine. Mostly interested in Stems and Branches, I Ching, Astronomy and its effect, and the understanding of Acupuncture.

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Volker SCHEID

Centre Associate
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine
University College, London

From January 2005:
210 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE

From Spring 2006:
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE

Tel: 020 7679 8100
Fax: 020 7679 8194
E-mail: xide@blueyonder.co.uk
Webpage: http://asianmedcom.site.securepod.com/people/volker_scheid/

Areas of Interest: contemporary Chinese medicine, zhongyi gejia xue, medical anthropology, critical theory

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John Wm. SCHIFFELER

Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
237 Vista Verde
Carmel Valley, California 93924-9609

Tel: (831) 659-4733
Fax: (831) 659-4733

E-mail: Schiffeler@aol.com

Areas of Interest: Archæology, cultural geography, and ancient and mediæval history, especially pertaining to religio-philosophical symbolism and folk medicine/traditional Chinese medicine and related biomedical practices and customs. Currently engaged in translating the Shan hai jing, or "The Classic of the Mountains and Seas."

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Franz-Rudolph A. SCHMIDT

Ostasiatisches Seminar
University Goettingen
Germany

Postal address:
37073 Goettingen
Waldhausweg 26, 5th floor

E-mail: xiaode@t-online.de

Areas of Interests:  Medico-technology of late antique China, ethnological and medico-technological data transported by late antique text-culture, specialized on medico- and pharmacography of the Southern Courts (317-589), textual history of the Shennong bencao jing.  Editor of the on-line journal Materia Medica Sinica (www.materia medica sinica.de).

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Andrew SCHONEBAUM

Doctoral Candidate
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Columbia University

524 W. 114th St. #3A
New York, NY 10025
(212) 932-8057

ads36@columbia.edu

Research interests:  Medicine in Chinese literature, venereal disease, history of medical metaphors

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Hugh SHAPIRO

Associate Professor
Department of History
University of Nevada
Reno, NV 89557-0037
USA

T: (1) (775) 784-6451
F: (1) (775) 784-6805
E-mail: shapiro@scs.unr.edu

Areas of Interest: psychiatric illness in China during the Republican Period (1912-1949), period-specific disorders, changing attitudes toward contagion. Dissertation (Harvard, 1995): "The View from a Chinese Asylum: Defining Madness in 1930s Peking"

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Nathan SIVIN


Professor
Department of History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304
USA
T: (1) (215) 898-8400

[Address:]
8125 Roanoke Street
Philadelphia, PA 19118-3949
USA
T: (1) (215) 242-1596

E-mail: nsivin@mail.sas.upenn.edu
Webpage: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/hss/index.html (Departmental web site)

Areas of Interest: all areas of history of Chinese science and medicine

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Lowell SKAR

Assistant Professor
Department of Social Sciences
University of Michigan, Dearborn
Dearborn, MI
USA

E-mail: lskar@umd.umich.edu

Areas of Interest: Chinese alchemy, Daoism, and popular forms of healing; science, medicine, and religion in Chinese culture and society from the Tang to Ming dynasties

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Hilary SMITH

Ph.D. candidate
University of Pennsylvania
History and Sociology of Science Department
303 Logan Hall
249 S. 36th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Tel: 215-898-4643
E-mail: smithhil@sas.upenn.edu

Areas of interest: history of Chinese science, medicine, and society; history of Western medicine.

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Richard J. SMITH

Professor of History and Director of Asian Studies 
Rice University
6100 South Main Street
Houston, TX 77005-1892
USA

Tel:  (713) 348-4947
Fax: (713) 348-5207

E-mail: address: smithrj@rice.edu
Web page: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~asia/

Areas of interest:  I am interested in the relationship between Chinese medicine and other forms of "applied cosmology," including divination. See my book Fortune-tellers and Philosophers (Westview Press, 1991).

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Stephen R. SMITH


Associate Professor of Anthroplogy
Wittenberg University
Springfield, Ohio 45501
USA

T: (1) (937) 327-7056/[H] (1) (937) 390-9584
F: (1) (937) 327-6340
E-mail: ssmith@wittenberg.edu

Areas of Interest: Medical anthropology; East Asia, especially Japan, then Korea; food culture, alcohol use/abuse and treatment; alternative therapies

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Al STONE
 
Licensed Acupuncturist, Professor
Emperor's College of Traditional Oriental Medicine
1807-B Wilshire Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90403
 

T: (1) (310) 453-8300
E-mail: al@gancao.net
URL: http://gancao.net/weblogs/acublog/

Areas of interest: Traditional Chinese medicine, herbal medicines, point injection therapy, reinterpretation of biomedical research through the eyes of TCM.

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Nikolaus SUCHER

Assistant Professor
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Department of Biology
Clear Water Bay
Kowloon
Hong Kong SAR
China

Tel: (852)23587306
Fax: (852)23581559

E-mail: sucher@ust.hk

Web pages: http://home.ust.hk/~sucher
                   http//: www.tchmexchange.com

Areas of interest: History and development of TCM, particularly pharmacology. Current research involves identifying the active principles in TCM ingredients with neuroprotective properties.

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William C. SUMMERS


Professor
Graduate Program in History of Medicine and Science
Yale University
333 Cedar Street
New Haven, CT 06520-8040
USA

T: (1) (203) 785-2980
F: (1) (203) 785-6309
E-mail: william.summers@yale.edu
Webpage: http://info.med.yale.edu/therarad/summers

Areas of Interest: History of Chinese science and medicine; history and philosophy of 19th and 20th C. (Western) biological science and medicine

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Mike SZONYI


Department of History
McGill University
855 Sherbrooke Street W
Montreal H3A 2T7
CANADA

T: (1) (514) 398-4865
E-mail: szonyi@leacock.lan.mcgill.ca

Areas of interest: ritual, official, and medical responses to epidemic disease

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Iven TAO

PhD candidate 
Christian-Albrechts-Universität 
Kiel, Germany 

Research Fellow 
University Duisburg-Essen at
Kliniken-Essen-Mitte Dept. V
Naturopathy and Integrative Medicine
Am Deimelsberg 34a45276 
Essen, Germany
Tel. (49) (0201) 8055645
Fax. (49) (0201) 8054005 
Mobile: (49) (163) 8746888

Areas of interest: History of Chinese medicine, especially history of acupuncture; medical terminology and metaphor; bowel diseases.

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Kim TAYLOR

Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the History of Chinese Medicine
Needham Research Institute
8 Sylvester Road
Cambridge CB3 9AF
Tel: 01223-311545/(direct line) 01223-472874
Fax: 01223-362703

E-mail: kt10005@cus.cam.ac.uk

Areas of interest: Recent history of Chinese medicine.  Her PhD thesis,  'Medicine of Revolution' (University of Cambridge, 2000), looked at the institutionalization and standardization of Chinese medicine in early Communist China, 1945-1963.  Her current research project is on the medical, social and political reactions to cholera in China, 1862-1932.

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Michele THOMPSON

Assistant Professor
Department of History
Southern Connecticut State University
501 Crescent St.
New Haven, CT 06515
USA

T: (1) (203) 392-5614

E-mail: thompsonc2@southernct.edu
 

Areas of interest: Ancient Southeast Asia, Modern Southeast Asia, Sino-Vietnamese medicine and Nom

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Xiaoli TIAN

Ph.D. student
Department of Sociology
University of Chicago

5112 S. Woodlawn Ave., Apt. 2K
Chicago, IL 60615

Tel: 773-517-9742
E-mail: xltian@uchicago.edu

Areas of interest:  I am interested in how the medical missionaries introduced western medicine into 19th-century China and its relationship with traditional Chinese Medicine.

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Rey TIQUIA


History and Philosophy of Science
The University of Melbourne
243 Waterdale Rd.
Ivanhoe 3079
Victoria
AUSTRALIA

T: (61) (3) 94991362
F: (61) (3) 94974996
E-mail: rey@alphalink.com.au

Areas of Interest: The notion of theory-as-practice in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM); TCM practice .and the broader philosphical Daoist frame (See abstract of M.Sc.thesis)

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Paul U. UNSCHULD


Professor and Director of the Institute of the History of Medicine
Munich University
Institute of the History of Medicine
Lessingstr.2
D-80336 München
GERMANY

T: (49) (89) 5160 2751, 5160 2752
F: (49) (89) 536 195
E-mail: U751101@sunmail.LRZ-Muenchen.de

Areas of Interest: history of medicine in China, especially history of prerepublican Chinese medical literature, medical ethics, pharmaceutics, and systems of ideas; transmission of TCM to Europe

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Elena VALUSSI


Adjunct professor
Columbia College
Chicago, IL

711 S. Dearborn 506
Chicago, IL, 60605
USA

Tel: (1) (312) 987-9808
E-mail: elena_valussi@yahoo.com

Areas of interest:   Chinese religion (Taoism and Buddhism), inner alchemy (neidan) and female alchemy (nudan) in late imperial China, female phyisiology.   Ph.D. dissertation:  "Beheading the Red Dragon:  a History of Female Inner Alchemy in Late Imperial China," School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2003.

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Isabeau VOLLHARDT

L.Ac., MSOM, BA Philosophy
Cinnabar Swan Healing Arts
944 C Street, Ashland, OR 97520
Tel: (541) 482-3493; no fax

E-mail: CinSwan@aol.com
Web page: http://www.cinnabarswan.com
                 
http://shuilong.cinnabarswan.com 

Areas of Interest: Medical anthropology as it relates to oriental medicine and shamanism; editorial assistance with translations of original texts into English for publication.

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Aihe WANG


Assistant Professor
Department of History
Purdue University
1358 University Hall
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1358
USA

T: (1) (765) 494-4149
F: (1) (765) 496-1755
E-mail: aihewang@purdue.edu

Areas of Interest: Warring States to Han China cosmology, ritual, religion, divination, body, cultivation of life, medicine, social, cultural, political histories, science and technology, archaeology; anthropology of Modern China

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Hsiu-yun WANG

PhD Candidate

Department of History of Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
7143 Social Science
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706

T/F: (608) 242-9746

E-mail: hwang6@students.wisc.edu

Areas of Interest: History of modern biology, history of social sciences, history of western medicine in 19th-century China and Taiwan

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Jun WANG


Graduate Student
Department of Anthropology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
906 A. Dawes Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
USA

T: (1) (919) 967-6807
Webpage: http://www.unc.edu/~jwang3/

Areas of Interest: medical anthropology, Chinese medicine, China

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Tony WANG


Director/Researcher
Chi-lin Institute (for Traditional Chinese Cultural Studies)
6111 No. 2 Road
Richmond, BC V7C 3L3
CANADA

T/F: (1) (604) 272 0258
E-mail: tonywang@istar.ca
Webpage: http://www.roc.simplenet.com

Areas of Interest: Practices related to Yijing, fengshui, fortune-telling, Taoist rites; the treatment of physical and spiritual disturbances using Yijing principles

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Helene McMurtrie WATSON

Ph.d Student
University of Wales Lampeter

[Address]
Dept of Religious Studies
University of Wales,Lampeter
Lampeter, Ceredigion SA47 7ED.UK

Tel/Fax: 01545 580686
E-mail address: hencaliban@hotmail.com

Areas of Interest: Chinese Medicine and Taoism, esp. acupuncture and its relationship to the Taoist view of the human body.

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Lorraine WILCOX

Ph.D. Student
American University of Complementary Medicine

[Mailing address]
11543 Olympic Blvd.
W. Los Angeles, CA 90064 USA

Tel: (626) 571-2757 
Fax:  (626) 571-2065
E-mail: xuankong@yahoo.com

Areas of interest:  The intersection of medicine and the Yijing (I am
translating Zhang Jiebin's essay on medicine and
the Yijing). Also ziwu liuzhu and other chrono-acupuncture systems.

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Sabine WILMS

Adjunct Professor
Department of History
Pima Community College
4905 East Broadway Blvd.
Tucson Arizona   85709-1010

 

Faculty member
Asian Institute of Medical Studies

 

E-mail: swilms@earthlink.net

Areas of interest: Natural philosophy, religion and medicine in early and medieval China; history of Chinese gynecology and obstetrics; TCM in contemporary US.

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Robert WRIGHT


Professor, History of Medicine, Orthopaedics
American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine
455 Arkansas Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
USA

T: (1) 707-255-5124
F: (1) (707) 255-0688
E-mail: rcwright@napanet.net

Areas of Interest: history of medicine, historical and philosophical foundations of ancient medical philosophy, particularly ancient Chinese, Greek and Egyptian

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Yi-Li WU

Assistant Professor
Department of History
Albion College
611 E. Porter St.
Albion, MI 49224
USA

T: (517) 629-0233
F: (517) 629-0428

E-mail: ywu@albion.edu
Webpage: http://www.albion.edu/history/ywu/

Areas of Interest: gynecology and obstetrics in late imperial China, social context of Chinese medical development, history of medical practitioners in China

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Chen XIN

Associate Professor and Deputy Director
Shenzhen Institute of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Wetern Medicine
Director, Dept.of Research and Education
Shenzhen Red Cross Hospital

Shenzhen Institute of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine
Shenzhen Red Cross Hospital
Shenzhen 518029 Guangdong
P.R.China

T: (86) (755) 3214812 or (86) (755) 3211323
F: (86) (755) 3356952

E-mail: xin_ch@hotmail.com

Areas of Interest: medical philosophy in Yellow Emperor's Canon of Medicine.

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Xiaoqun (David) XU


Assistant Professor
History Department
Francis Marion University
Florence, SC 29501
USA

T: (1) (803) 661-1554
F: (1) (803) 661-1432

Areas of Interest: social history of Republican China, conflict between Chinese native medicine and modern medicine in Shanghai in the Republican Period

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Xiangyin YANG

Ph.D. Candidate

Department of History
Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

Postal address: 

B402, PGH4,
Chinese University of Hong Kong

Shatin, Hong Kong

 

T: 00852-31635395

E-mail: yangxiangyin@yahoo.com.cn

 

Areas of interest: Colonial Medicine, Western Medicine and Chinese Medicine in Chinese Societies, History of Disease, Health and Medicine in Hong Kong

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Robin D.S. YATES


Professor
Department of History and of East Asian Studies
McGill University
3434 McTavish Street
Montreal, Quebec H3A 1X9
CANADA

T: (1) (514) 398-6741
F: (1) (514) 398-1882
E-mail: ryates@peterson.lan.mcgill.ca

Areas of Interest: newly discovered texts (Mawangdui, Zhanjiashan), military science, history of women, early Chinese philosophy

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Ka-che YIP

Professor
Department of History
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250

Email: yip@umbc.edu

Areas of Interest: History of public health in modern and contemporary China; history of malaria in China

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Emma ZEVIK


Visiting Professor Ethnomusicology
Sichuan Conservatory of Music
No. 6 Xinsheng Road
Chengdu Sichuan 610021
PRC

T: (86) (28) 558-1400 x3358
E-mail: emma@public.sta.net.cn

Areas of Interest: Qiangzu shamanism

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Mei ZHAN


PhD Candidate
Stanford University
P.O. Box 3426
Stanford, CA 94309
USA

T: (1) (415) 497-5363
F: (1) (415) 725-O605
E-mail: mzhan@leland.stanford.edu

Areas of Interest: anthropology of science and medicine; reconfiguration of traditional Chinese medicine in the U.S. context; dialogue between biomedicine and traditional Chinese medicine

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Daqing ZHANG

Associate Professor of History of Medicine
Center for History of Medicine
Beijing Medical University
38 Xueyuan Road Beijing 100083
China

E-mail: zhangdq@mail.bjmu.edu.cn

Areas of Interests: modern and contemporary Western medicine in China, medical anthropology and medical culture, social history of medicine.

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Everett Yuehong ZHANG

Assistant Professor
The State University of New York at Buffalo
Department of Anthropology
State University of New York
Buffalo, NY 14261  USA

Tel: 716-645-2414 ex. 106
Fax: 716-645-3808

E-mail:  hepingjie@yahoo.com

Areas of interest:  Nanke (men's medicine), the transformation of TCM, the cultivation of life, and the governance of life,

 

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