IASTAM
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September 1982
February 1983
August 1983
February 1984
August 1984
February 1985
November 1985
June 1986
November 1986
May 1987
September 1988
March 1989
December 1989
July 1992
April 1994
January 1995
January 1998
January 1998
December 1998
December 1999
September 2000

September 1982

2nd International Congress to be Held at Airlangga University
Pandit Shiv Sharma Obituary
Emmerick Emphasizes Importance of Indexing Medical Verses
Filliozat and His Pupils are Working on Many Subjects
News of People 1982
Guenther Steps Down as IASTAM Treasurer
Indian Chapter Founded
News of Institutions 1982
Conferences 1982
Editor Charles Leslie
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February 1983

Programme Committee Working on 2nd International Congress
In Memory of Jean Filliozat
Exact Date set for 2nd International Congress
Malaysian Chapter Being Formed 1983
Editorial Plan for IASTAM Bulletin Under Way
Indian Chapter of IASTAM Holds Conference in Bombay 1983
New Research Projects in Korea - Sich and Duk Hee Kang
Institute of History of Medicine and Medical Research Sponsors Conference
Research on Traditional Medicine in Indonesia - T Maretzki
News of People 1983
News of Institutions 1983
Conferences 1983
Editor Needs News Items
Editor Charles Leslie
New Books 1983
Guy Mazars Edits Special Issue of Curare
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August 1983

2nd International Congress Taking Shape
NCIH Co-Sponsors IASTAM Conference in Indonesia
Indian Chapter Conference a Big Success 1983
European Chapter of IASTAM being Formed
Major Conference on Chinese Medicine in Singapore
News on Conferences 1983
Malaysian Chapter Founded
Herbal Medication Widely used in Japan - M. Lock
Publications 1983
Research on Unani Medicine in India - H. Razzack
News of Institutions 1983
News of People 1983
New Clinic in Japan - M. Lock
Japanese Society for Research on Ayurveda- H. Maruyama
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February 1984

Beijing Scholars Become IASTAM Officers
Surabaya Congress Draws Many Delegates 1984
Essential Information for Congress Participants 1984
Congress Headquarters a Hyatt Hotel 1984
IASTAM Will Install New Officers at Surabaya Congress
Zimmermann to Edit Newsletter
Government Sponsored Research in India - Pandey
Grant for Research and Ayurveda and Community Health - Krishna Kumar
Islamic Medicine Conference in Turkey 1984
European Chapter of IASTAM Announces Officers -
Chinese Plant Symposium
China Medical College to Give Symposium in Surabaya
Publications 1984
News of Institutions 1984
News of People 1984
News of Conferences 1984
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August 1984

2nd International Congress from September 2 through 7 in Surabaya, Indonesia1984
Paul U. Unschuld Next President of IASTAM
Recent Publications on Arabic Medicine - Burgel
Iatrochemistry in India - Rossu
News of Conferences 1984
Food and Foodways - Explorations in the History and Culture of Human Nourishment Kaplan
What Style Shall We Adopt - Zimmermann
Current Work on Traditional Asian Medicine in the UK - Wujastyk
News of People 1984
New Publications 1984
Joesph Needham Science and Civilisation in China Volume VI: Biology and Biological Technology
The Groningen Workshop - Proceedings of the International Workshop on Priorities in the Study of Indian Medicine - Meulenbeld
China - Lock
Teizo Ogawa - Obituary
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February 1985

In the Wake of Surabaya
Reflections on Two ICTAMS 1985 Basham
South Asian Systems of Healing - Contributions to Asian Studies - Editor Ishwaran and Bardwell
Classics - The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea - Huntingford
Science, Folklore and Ideology, Studies in the Life Science in Ancient Greece - Lloyd
Wives and Midwives in Malaysia - Childbirth and Nutrition in Rural Malaysia - Lederman
On IASTAM - Unschuld
Regional Chapters
Current Work on Traditional Asian Medicine in the UK - Wujastyk
Philippines
Uk - Conrad
North America - Lock
Chinese University of Hong Kong - Nan-Fang ts'ao-mu chuang, A Fourth Century Flora of South East Asia, Hui-Lin Li
An Enurmaeration of Chinese Materia Medica - Shiu-ying Hu
Council of IASTAM 1985
Poruguese in India - Portuguese Pioneers in India, Spotlight on Medicine - Gaitonde
A Contribution - Laping
European Chapter - 1985
Conferences 1985
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November 1985

IASTAM Plans, The First International Symposium on Traditional Chinese Medical Literature, Munich 1985 - Unschuld
Fluid Signs, Being a Person the Tamil Way - Valentine Daniel
Illness and Culture in Contemporary Janpan, Ohnuki-Tierney
Sanskrit MSS of the Wellcome - Wujastyk
Permanence and Change in Asian Health Care - Leslie
On the Way 1985
Surabaya - Udupa
Conferences 1985
Islamic Science, Research Seminar on the History of Science, Medicine and Technology in Islamic Civilisations - Russell
Plant Names - André
Organizations 1985
On the BBC - Pfleiderer
The Cult of the Goddess Pattini - Obeyesekere
Medicine in China, A History of Ideas - Unschuld
IASTAM - Vice Presidents 1985
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June 1986

Council List 1986
Arthur L Basham Award to be Established - Unschuld
Chinese Medicine in Munich, The First International Symposium on Traditional Chinese Medicine - Unschuld
Tibetan Medicine in London, Body and Mind in Tibetan Medicine
A.L Basham - Wilhelm, Zysk
IASTAM/ North America - Cunningham
Establishing a Journal of Asian Medicine, Preliminary Announcement - Zimmermann
Research Aids in Traditional Asian Medicine - Unschuld
Buddism and Healing: Demieville's Article - Tatz
From WHO - Dr Soon-Young Yoon
Pagalami: Ethopychiatric Knowledege in Bengal-Bhattacharyya
Editor's Predilections
Medicine and the Three Functions-Dumezil
Buddhist Insights, Essays - Wayman
Medicine in China, A history of Pharmaceutics - Unschuld
The Taoist Body - Schipper
Dumbarton Oaks Papers, No. 38 Symposium on Byzantine Medicine - Scarborough
Karma and Rebirth, Post Classical Developments, - Neufeldt
Culture and Depression Studies in the Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry of Affect and Disorder - Kleinman and Good
Shamans, Housewives and Other restless Spirits, Women in Korean Ritual Life - Kendall
The Body in Nilgiri Tribal Languages, A Contribution to A real Linguistic
Studies, Zvelebil
The Tibetan Transculural Psychiatry Project - Lobsang Rapgay
Sanskrit Conference in Leiden - Meulenbeld
Birds in Sanskrit
Carakasmhita
Madanadinighantu
Japan Publication - Akahori
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November 1986

Council List 1986
Munich Symposium 1986
Co-Editors 1986
Primary Healthcare - Justice
Medicine and Landscape - Zimmermann
In the Vedas - Zysk
Fudo - Berque
Vayaskara N. S. Mooss - Obituary
Symposium Agenda - 1986
Chinese Texts - Ma Kanwen
Sanskrit Texts - Zimmermann
Manuscripts of a Han Tomb at Mawangdui - Despeux
Call for Papers, Asian Folklore Studies, Knecht
India - Chattopadhyaya
India Seen from Roma - Andre and Filliozat
Foodways - Mahias
London - Wujastyk
Chinese Seattle - Buell
Indian Childhood - Stork
Jerusalem Medicine, Bible and Talmund Symposium
Thai Healing - Tambiah, Kayes
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May 1987

Council List 1987
Editorial - Unschuld
Closing the Gap and Reversing the Tide - Wiseman and Ellis
Zhenjiu Jing - Despeux
F Orbringer
Thailand Herbal Drugs in PHC - le Grand
Sri Lanka - Glynn and Heymann
Labrang Tibetan Medicine - Buffetrille and Blondeau
The Medical College of Labrang Monastery - Gyatso and Buffetrille
News from India 1987
Medical Literature in Sri Lanka - Liyanaratne
Traditional Herbal Medicine in Northern Thailand - Brun and Schumacher
Priya Vrata Sharma, Caraka-Samhita, Vol3,
D V Subba Reddy - Obituary
Kyoto Chinese Science 1987
Conferences 1987
Paul Unschuld Interview - Bhatt
Knowledge before Printing and after, The Indian Tradition in Changing Kerala - Wood
Co-Editors 1987
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September 1988

Council List 1988
3rd International Congress to be Held in India
Crossing Cultures and Crisscrossing Approaches - Zimmermann
Social Orgins of Distress and Disease: Depression, Neurasthenia and Pain in Modern China - Kleinman
Kyasanur Forest Disease: An Ethnography of a Disease in Development Nichter
Medicine, Magic and Evil Spirits (Study of Text on Thai Traditional Paediatrics - Mulholland
From Democedes to Harvey, Collected Studies in the History of Medicine - Nutton
Nan-Ching, The Classic of Difficult Issues: Translated and Annotated - Unschuld
The Hot-Cold Syndrome
Remember that in the Chinese Biomedical System Traditional Terms are Often Employed with Derived Meaning - Kleinman
News of People 1988
Geographical Aspects of Health and Disease in India - Akhtar and Learmonth
Technical Sanskrit
Studies on Indian Medical History - Wujastyk and Meulenbeld
Allurment, Passion and Medness
Monsoons - Fein and Stephens
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March 1989

Council List 1989
3rd International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicine
Al Basham Medal Awarded to Yamada Keiji and G Jan Meulenbeld
The Politics of Health in India - Jeffrey
Philosophical Synthesis in Early Han Thought, The Idea of Resonance - Blanc and Huai Nan Tzu
Sanskrit Names of Plants and Their Botanical Equivalents - Meulenbeld
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry -Good, Byron, Fischer
Drinkers and Non-milk drinkers of Milk
Meaning and Knowledge in Medical Pluralism: Sri Lanka - Nordstrom
Approaches to Traditional Chinese Medical Literature - Unschuld
Introductory Readings in Classical Chinese Medicine, Sixty Texts with Vocabulary and Translation, a Guide to Research Aids and a General Glossary - Unschuld
Hindu Mantras
Surgical Diseases in the Tropics - Joshi
Huangti Neiching Suwen
Staying Alive, Women, Ecology and Survival in India - Shiva
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December 1989

Veiled Sentiments - Abu-Lughod
Process or Creation - Jullien
Understanding Mantras - Alper
Monkey as Mirror - Ohnuki - Tierney
Ethnosociology of India - Marriott
Rice in South East Asia - Revel
Disease Ecology - Learmonth
Editorial - Zimmermann
Crossing Boundaries - Zimmermann
Bombay 1990
Extreme Orient, Extreme Occident - Jullien
Studies in Indian Logic and Linguistics - Staal
In Search of Self in India and Japan - Roland
Madhavanidana
Primary Health Care
Primary Health Care and Traditional Medical Practitioners - Kakar
Paris 1991, Preliminary Announcement
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IASTAM Interim Report from Paris, 15th September 1990

July 1992

What is 'Traditional' about Traditional Asian Medicine - Leslie
IASTAM Panel - Adams
Research Reports - Tenets of Traditional Chinese Medicine - Schiffeler
IASTAM Meeting at AAA Conference
Birth, Marriage and Death in Peking: Popular Culure and Elite Culture from the 19th Century to Present - Leutner
Comfrey in the Chinese Materia Medica - Anderson
North American Chapter News
The Americanization of Asian Herbal Medicine - Heinerman
Looking for a Good Book on Asian Medicine - Nuckolls
Chinese Pediatrics - History and Current Status: A Research Report - Volkmar
Landscapes of Emotion: Mapping Three Cultures of Emotion in Indonesia - Heider
Traditional Medicine in Contemporary China, A Partial Translation of Revised Outline of Chinese Medicine - Sivin
Taming the Wind of Desire: Psychology, Medicine and Aesthetics in Malay Shamanistic Performance - Laderman
Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest: Temiar Music and Medicine - Rosemen
Medical Anthropology - Nuckolls
Managing Turbulent Hearts: A Balinese Formula for Living - Wikan
4th ICTAM Tokyo
New Centre at Harvard
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April 1994

4th ICTAM Tokyo
A.L. Basham Medals 1994
Patricia and Roger Jeffery - Basham Medal Winners
Labour Pains and Labour Power: Women and Childbearing in India - Jeffery
AAA - Atlanta
Basham Medal Winner - Shigehisa Kuriyama
Election of New Officers - Zimmermann and Nuckolls
From the Editor - Nuckolls
A Debate on Asian Medicine
Congress Schedule
Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge - Leslie and Young
Medical Anthropology: The Journal - Nuckolls
Conference Proposal - Cassidy
New Secretary - General for North American Chapter
Farewell to Mark Nichter
European Chapter of IASTAM 1994
President of the North American Chapter of IASTAM - Adams
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January 1995

History and the Evanescent, A problem from Cultural Anthropology - Farqular
Travelling Therapies - Cohen
New Internet Discussion Forum - Wujastyk
Treasurers Report 1995 - Adams
IASTAM on the World Wide Web - Wujastyk
Chinese Medicine in Historical Objects and Images - Exhibition in Berlin 1995-1996
Medicinal Plants Network Launched in New Delhi - Holley
ICTAM: A Challenged Posed - Kuriyama
Indo-Tibetan Medical Project - Braxton
Modern Medicine and Its Non-modern Critics: A Study in Discourse, A Carnival for Science - Visvanathan
FRLHT's Pioneering Initative for Medicinal Plats Conservation - Layont
Indo-Tibetan Medical Series - Zysk
Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series - Conrad, Unschuld and Wujastyk
The European Journal of Herbal Medicine (Phytotherapy) - Wujastyk
Journal of the Ayurvedic Society - Emmerick
IASTAM Symposium at the Wellcome Institute London 1995
4th Worlds Congress on Holistic Life and Medicine - Wujastyk
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January 1998

Editorial - Ernst and Reed
IASTAM and the Internet - Wujastyk
IASTAM International, Who is Who?
IASTAM Symposium at the Wellcome Institute London 1995 - Ayurveda Today - Manohar
A Body of Knowledge? The Relationship between Yoga and Science - Whicher
Reflections - South Indian Siddha Medicine - Subbarayappa
Forthcoming Conference - Plural Medicine - Orthodox and Heterodox Medicine in Western and Colonial Countries During the 19th and 20th Centuries - Ernst
New Centre - Centre for the History and Culture of Medicine, SOAS - Cullen
Work in Progress - The Eradication of Small Pox: India , 1900-1977 - Bhattacharya
Work in Progress - 'Syncretic' Beliefs, 'Symbolic' Behaviours: The Health Beliefs and Behaviours of American and British South Asian Women - Reed
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December 1998

Editorial - Ernst
Avicenna's Links with Chinese Medicine. A Chapter of the History of Sino-Arabic Relation During the Middle Ages - Ming and Klein-Franke
Hui-hui yau-fang chi yu-kuan lun-wen shu-ying - Chiant Jun-hsiang
Living with Death: A Guided Tour in and Around Ottoman Hospitals - Shefer
Ways of Learning Chinese Medicine and Qigong - Hsu
Ongoing Research - Alter
Paul D Buell
Ayurvedic Medicines in India: An Anthroplogical Inquiry into Medical Knowledge and Social Change - Bode
New Centre 1998
An Alliance of Chinese Medicine Associations in Australia - Tiquia
Indian Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine
Conference Reports
'Women and Health, Sociologists for Women in Society, Atlanta, Georgia, 1998 - Reed
'Medicinal Plants Conservation, Utilisation, Trade and Cultural Traditions - Medicinal Plants for Survival, 1998 - Shankar
'Medical Systems and Plural Medicine in Asia and Africa' 1998 - Reed
Plural Medicine - Orthodox and Heterodox Medicine in Western and Colonial Countries During the 19th and 20th Centuries 1998 - Ernst
Society for the Social History of Medicine - Borsay
Past and Present in Traditional Medical Systems - Pitman and Wujastyk
News, New Minister sought for Indian Medicine Systems - Ramakrishna
Letters to the Editor - Said, Sutarjadi, Parikh
When the Body Becomes All Eyes: Paradigms, Discourses and Practices of Power in Kalarippayattu - Zarrilli
New Book Series 1998
News from the IASTAM Web-Master - Wujastyk
IASTAM Who is Who? 1998
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December 1999

Editorial - Ernst
Varieties in Indonesian Traditional Health Care - Azwar Agoes
Life Gate and Potential Fire - Some Chinese Findings on Endocrinal Knowledge - Ming, Klein-Franke and Qi
Research in ProgressPenkala-Gawecki
Madness and the colonial constitution of mental illness in India: psychiatry in colonial India - Sharma
Symposium on the past and present in traditional medical systems - Pitman
International conference on traditional Asian medicine Halle
Reviews
Early Chinese Medicical Literature: The Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts - Harper
Ayurveda: The Ancient Indian Science of Healing - Majumdar
The Roots of Ayurveda, Selections from Sanskrit Medical Writings - Wujastyk
Publications received for review
Hakim Mohammed said
Letters to Asian medicine
Aroor Ravi memorial Ayurvedic Research centre
IASTAM India
IASTAM International - Who is Who? 1999
IASTAM Web - Wujastyk
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September 2000

Editorial - Ernst
Sources of Senna in traditional Indian Ayurvedic medicine - Wujastyk
International Trust for the Traditional Medicine, Kalimpong, North Eastern Himalayas, India - a profile - Gerke
Traditional Chinese Medicine at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia - Cochran
The Asian Agri-History Foundation - Nene
Forthcoming Conference - Halle
Conference Reports: Dunhuang 2000: The Medical Manuscripts - Cullen and Lo
Wellcome Symposium on Advanced Research in Complementary March 2000 - Tiquia
Reviews: The Soup for the Quan - Buell and Anderson
The Jungle and the Aroma of Meats - Zimmermann
History of Indian Medicine Based on Vedic Literature: Satapatha Brahmana - Saha
Publications received for review
Web and Archival Resources - Wujastyk
Dr K M Parikh
Letters the editor
IASTAM Web - Wujastyk
Getting to know the New IASTAM Council Members - 2000
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