Date:
Thursday, November 21, 2013 (All day) to Sunday, November 24, 2013 (All day)
Location:
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, 415 Summer St, Boston, MA 02210
Panels of interest to the ESWG community include:
Session T3: Re-Thinking Medieval and Early Modern Science
- Thursday 11/21
- Location: Room 252B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
- Chair and Organizer: Elly Truitt (Bryn Mawr College)
- Presenters:
- “Unsettling Boundaries I: Premodern and Modern,” Ahmed Ragab (Harvard University)
- “Unsettling Boundaries II: East and West,” Katharine Park (Harvard University)
- “Byzantium: The Other East,” Darin Hayton (Haverford College)
- “An Irrational Fear of Magic,” Elly Truitt (Bryn Mawr College)
Session Sa14: Negotiating Medical Knowledge in the Early Modern World
- Saturday 11/23
- Location: Otis (Lobby Level)
- Chair: Ashley Inglehart (Indiana University)
- Presenters
- “Shop Natural History: The Conversable and Convivial Science of the Renaissance Pharmacy,” Valentina Pugliano (Cambridge University)
- “Needles, Texts and Anatomy: Towards a Cross-Cultural Understanding of Acupuncture in Seventeenth-Century Japan,” Wei Yu Wayne Tan (Harvard University)
- "Making Observations: Patients and the Medical Encounter in Early Modern England,” Olivia Weisser (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
- “Reforming Knowledge over the Nature of Drugs: A Physiological Turn in Eighteenth Century Chinese Materia Medica,” He Bian (Harvard University)
- “Mercury Drugs as Objects of Knowledge in Tokugawa Japan,” Daniel Trambaiolo (Princeton University)
See http://hssonline.org/Meeting/index.html for more information, including registration.
A complete preliminary program can be found at http://hssonline.org/Meeting/2013HSSMeeting/2013_Preliminary_Program.pdf.
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