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SUMMARY:Glocalizing Medicine in the Canton/Hong Kong Region in Late Qing C
 hina (1840-1911) - Prof Angela Leung (University of Hongkong)
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CONTACT:Ghassan Moazzin
DESCRIPTION:The Canton/ Hong Kong region was known for its cosmopolitanism
  with long- standing multi-cultural presence due to trans-continental trad
 e since at least the 17th century. This lecture will look at the process o
 f Glocalizing medicine by focusing on two points:\n\nTo see how Western me
 dical concepts were ‘sold’ to the Cantonese and how they were understo
 od. Two aspects of the process will be highlighted: the adaptation of miss
 ionary ‘hospitals’ in Canton\, and the rendering of missionary medical
  texts into Chinese with Chinese student- translators playing a critical r
 ole.\n  \nBased on two major global epidemics: bubonic plague of the 1890s
  and jiaoqi/beriberi from the 1880s onward\, to see how these inter-region
 al outbreaks were observed\, researched\, understood\, reframed\, and mana
 ged by both Western and Chinese doctors and institutions.\nThis study atte
 mpts to show the differing roles of Western medical missionaries\, Chinese
  doctors\, patients\, students and publishers in integrating western medic
 al practice in the region. On the other hand the stories of the plague and
  jiaoqi/beriberi epidemics at the turn of the century will illustrate how 
 a rapidly deteriorating epidemiological situation in the region challenged
  existing Western and Chinese framing of diseases and how new strategies o
 f observation\, therapeutics\, management of patients had to be developed.
LOCATION:Rooms 8&9\, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
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