Mini-Symposium on History of Medicine in China and Japan

3:15 pm WELCOME by Paula Findlen, Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of History, Stanford University

3:25 pm FEDERICO MARCON, Assistant Professor of Japanese History, University of Virginia

The Polysemy of Nature: The Diversity of Honzogaku Practices in Early Modern Japan

3:50 pm CARLA NAPPI, Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy, Montana State University

The Crucible: Natural History and the Normal in Early Modern Bencao

4:15 pm PAUL UNSCHULD, Director of the Institute for the History of Medicine, University of Munich

Introduction by Joseph Helms, Professor of Medical Acupuncture, Stanford University School of Medicine

The Origin of Chinese Medicine: Characteristics and Cultural Context of the Emergence of a New View on Disease and Health Care in Antiquity

5:45 pm PANEL DISCUSSION