THE INSTITUTE OF MALAYSIAN AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (IKMAS) UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA cordially invites you to:<\/p>\n
IKMAS Seminar Series No.15\/2016<\/p>\n
Title:\u00a0Placing Chinese Fevers<\/p>\n
Date: Wednesday, 21st September 2016<\/span><\/p>\n Time: 2:30pm \u2013 4:30pm<\/span><\/p>\n Venue: IKMAS Seminar Room, Level 1, IKMAS Building, 43600 Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia<\/p>\n Speaker:\u00a0Mr Maurits Meerwijk,\u00a0Department of History,\u00a0University of Hong Kong<\/p>\n SYNOPSIS<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n In this paper, I explore how febrile diseases were understood by Western physicians and scientists working in China during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on archives from Hong Kong and the Treaty Ports, I examine prevalent assumptions about \u2018fevers\u2019 \u2013 their nature, dissemination, and treatment. Although this period is often taken to mark a \u2018breakthrough\u2019 in scientific knowledge and practice (the \u2018laboratory revolution\u2019), in the paper I show how \u2018fevers\u2019 were, in fact, understood as heterogeneous phenomena that assumed different identities in the locales where they were found. My aim is to open up a space to study the history of these variegated diseases and, in so doing, to move away from historical and current accounts that persist in lumping these febrile diseases together as being \u2018mostly malaria\u2019.<\/p>\n \n Chinese fevers, I argue, occupied a position between familiar European conditions and the obscure diseases of \u2018warm climates\u2019. Significantly, the emerging discipline of modern tropical medicine, underpinned by bacteriology and parasitology, received input and impetus from physicians, such as Patrick Manson, who had practiced all but exclusively in China. Assumptions and ideas about the Chinese disease landscape, and the practice of medical science in China, thus played a critical role in the formation of the biomedical sciences and in the constitution of \u2018modern\u2019 disease identities.<\/p>\n ABOUT THE SPEAKER<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n Mr Maurits Meerwijk is a doctoral candidate at the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on the history of dengue fever in modern Asia. His thesis seeks to cast light on the past of a neglected tropical disease, and examines the conundrum of why some diseases are more \u2018visible\u2019 than others. Maurits is deeply interested in the historical interplay (both material and discursive) of diseases and environments, and the development of modern medical science in the non-West. He holds a BA in History from the University of Utrecht and an MA in Modern History from the University of Warwick.<\/p>\n We look forward to your participation in this seminar. Confirmation of your attendance is greatly appreciated.\u00a0 For further information please call 8921- 4169 or 8921-5855.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE INSTITUTE OF MALAYSIAN AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (IKMAS) UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA cordially invites you to: IKMAS Seminar Series No.15\/2016 Title:\u00a0Placing Chinese Fevers Date: Wednesday, 21st …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-1454","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1455,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1454\/revisions\/1455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}