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ICTAM VII: International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicine, Thimpu, Bhutan, September 2009
ICTAM VI: International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicine, Austin, Texas, April 2006
ICTAM V: International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicine, Halle, Germany, August 2002

Other Past Conferences on Asian Medicine

Sport, Medicine and Immortality: from Ancient China to the World Wide Web, London, March 2008
Authenticity, Best Practice, and the Evidence Mosaic: The Challenge of Integrating East Asian Medicines into Western Health Care, London April 2007
IASTAM London Regional Conference, Dec 2004

Past Conferences

IASTAM organises conferences in order to draw together practitioners and scholars from around the world. The conferences act as a focus for a wide variety of disciplines, and provide an opportunity to meet others in the field.

IASTAM Asian Medicine Tradition and Modernity
London Regional Conference

2nd December 2004
Room B202, 2nd Floor Bloomsbury Suite, Brunei Gallery building
10 Thornaugh Street, Great Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG

Programme

This conference was held to celebrate the new journal of the society of IASTAM (The International Association for the Study of Asian Medicine).

It also coincided with the exhibition Asia: Body Mind Spirit Presented by the Wellcome Trust Libraries 13 October - 12 December 2004 at the SOAS Brunei Gallery.

Members of the IASTAM board and other scholars from a range of different backgrounds gave lectures on historical, anthropological, sociological and iconographic dimensions of Asian medicine as well as practice reports from practitioners working in the field.

Ayurveda and Sexuality: Sex Therapy and the 'Paradox of Virility' in Contemporary India.
Joe Alter, University of Pittsburgh

Problem Pregnancies in Early Ayurvedic Texts
Martha Selby, University of Texas

Representations of the Body in China
Catherine Despeux, INALCO

Wellcome's Online Chinese Medical Iconographic Collection
Penny Barrett, Wellcome Trust Centre

Plant Cultures
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

The Construction of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Kim Taylor, Shanghai Institute [to be funded]

Plurality and Synthesis: Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China
Volker Scheid

Evidence and Experience of Chinese Medicine
Hugh MacPherson, University of York

TCM in East Africa
Elisabeth Hsu, Institute of Social and Cultural
Anthropology, University of Oxford

Roundtable Discussion
Traditional Medicine and Professionalisation in the UK
Dominik Wujastyk, and Hugh MacPherson

Tour of the exhibition
Nigel Allan, Curator of the Oriental Collection, Wellcome Library

The first TCM text books
Cinzia Scorzon

Evening Reception In the Brunei Gallery
Launch of IASTAM journal
Launch of Lo and Cullen, Mediaeval Chinese Medicine
Launch of Kim Taylor Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China

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