• ICTAM VII: International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicine, Thimpu, Bhutan, September 2009
  • Call for papers
  • First Circular
  • Panel abstracts
  
  
  
  • Useful Links
  
  
• 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

• 12th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia , Baltimore, Maryland, July 14-18, 2008
  

• 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

Bhutan travel information (updated on 26 June):

Bhutan visa application:

Mandatory Registration Form: Download MSWord Document

The International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine (IASTAM) will hold its Seventh International Congress (ICTAM) in September, 7th to 11th 2009 at the Institute of Traditional Medicine Services, Thimphu in Bhutan. The theme for the Seventh Congress is "Asian Medicine: Cultivating Traditions and the Challenges of Globalisation." The theme is purposefully wide. IASTAM invites proposals for papers on the cultivation of the body, of plants and traditional knowledge and practice. IASTAM also invite proposals on the challenges faced by the globalisation of traditional Asian medicines, tensions between local and global production, interpretation, professionalisation and evaluation, as well as issues of trade, economy and ecology.


Registration for the conference is set at £150 and payable as soon as your abstract has been accepted. Six months before the conference, every conference participant has to submit a one-page abstract of the paper presented and its translation into the language most relevant to the audience addressed.

Payment of Registration for ICTAM VII

Please contact Joseph S. Alter if you have questions.

All participants must also provide evidence that they are members of IASTAM and subscribers to the journal of IASTAM Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity at time of registration. Subscribe online here.

Accomodations

Accommodation, local transportation, lodging and basic sightseeing is fixed by the Bhutanese Institute at 150 US dollars per day for a maximum stay of 5 days.

Funding

IASTAM is providing registration and accommodation subsidies for the registration of 50 participants who are resident in Asian countries and earn local salaries, and who otherwise would not be able to attend. Awards will be made on the basis of the quality of the abstracts, which will be evaluated by the panel of the committee members (travel expenses not included, but we are trying to have more external funding which might enable us to also fund these).

Asian Medicine is a multidisciplinary journal aimed at researchers and practitioners of Asian medicine. It makes available in one single publication academic essays that explore the historical, anthropological, sociological and philological dimensions of Asian medicine as well as practice reports from clinicians based in Asia and in Western countries.

Call for Papers

Please download and distribute our invitation and call for paper flyer or print out and post it at your institution.

English invitation and call for papers:  Download
Tibetan invitation and call for papers:  Download

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First Circular:  Download

Second Circular:  Download

Panel Abstracts

Here are the panel abstracts that have been processed as of 2 April 2009. If you have applied to participate but do not find yourself on one of these panels, please contact us.

01    Traditional Healing in Bhutan
02    Mongolian Medicine
03    South Asian Medical Pluralism and Globalisation
04    History and Practice of Korean Medicine
05    Medical Manuscripts on the Silk Roads
06    The Limits of Authenticity - Views from Practitioners
07    Text and Practice in Himalayan Healing
08    Women and Gender in Asian Medicine
09    Sustainability in Transnational Asian Medicine
10    New Frontiers in Effectiveness and Evidence
11    Globalisation, Hybridity and Continuity in Traditional Japanese Health Practices
12    Caring Homes
13    Medicine and Healing in the Bon Tradition
14    Concepts of Nature
15    Cultivating Perfection and Longevity
16    Tibetan Medicine Panel
17    Remedies of Modernity
18    [intentionally omitted]
19    Trade and the Globalisation of Medicine
20    Empiricisms in Transition
21    Body Parts Body Whole
22    Public Health, Integrated Care and Traditional Medicine
23    Tibetan Medicine in Amdo
        Individual presentations

We look forward to seeing you in Bhutan this September!

Useful links

Visa Application for Bhutan

Travel and Visa Information for the conference in Thimpu (with Druk Air Flight Schedules)

Institute of Traditional Medicine Services, Thimphu, Bhutan: http://www.health.gov.bt/ITMS/01index/01htm/01index.htm

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhutan

Currency converter: http://www.xe.com/ucc/

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