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Spending this weekend in Taipei for the tenth #IASTAM meeting between practitioners and scholars of asian medicine. Check out the program: ictam-ashm.com

New @JHUPress book, BODY MAPS, by @LanAngelaLi explores how hand-drawn body maps have shaped our understanding of human anatomy across cultures and centuries. OUT NOW in Europe from your favourite bookshop or @WileyGlobal!

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Chinese Medicine and Culture – The Study and Practice of International Standardization of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Context of Globalization. journals.lww.com/cmc/Pages/Spec…

@MStanleyBaker @CMCoverseas @IASTAMHQ omg shoutout!!!!!

Latest issue of Chinese Medicine and Culture @CMCoverseas is out. Includng an article by @LanAngelaLi, host of the next @IASTAMHQ conference!

Last day of IASTAM X! Angelika Messner offering a keynote on 17th century #emotions and mental health. Notice the 4 kinds of anger and lovesickness as a longstanding disease category 💔💔💔 #IASTAM #mentalhealth

when summoning spirits into the body, left are yang gods and right are yin gods. #bifurcation #IASTAM

central to Hu Yin's writing on the corporeal body is asymmetry! v cool stuff related to cosmic time, cosmic movements (and emperors facing south to rule an empire w sun rising on right, setting on left) also has to do w palpating body! #IASTAM #bifurcation

practitioner-scholar Daniel Sligelman on the ninth century Daoist priestess Hu Yin 胡愔 and her writings/interests on corporeal resonance, communication, connection #IASTAM

Multi-generational ritual with kids beating lemons representing pests (mice & insects) followed by elders sweeping and drenching ground w sweet dew #Pangcah #mibahbah #IASTAM #IASTAMX

Panel on spirituality and religion in healing w Dr. Pi-Chen Liu on indigenous Pangcah in Taiwan and mibahbah rituals for eliminating epidemics #shaman #IASTAM #IASTAMX

core issues in resurrecting Confucian ethics are wrapped in social, political, and coercive that increasingly appeared to describe medical practice during the colonial period #IASTAM #IASTAMX #ethics

contemporary Korean physicians forming an identity around medical ethics based on longstanding texts ie Art of Benevolence/human-ness #IASTAM #IASTAMX #asianethics #philosophyofkindness meanwhile...physicians remain on strike

Dr. Hyojin Lee on Confucian ethics among Korean doctors re: multiple histories of asian medicines panel #IASTAM #IASTAMX

Ayurvedic anti-fungal fumigations include powder forms of palasha, vidanga, bhallataka, vilwadi gulika in addition to pastes to prevent eye removal as the fungus eats ur eyes and naval cavity. #IASTAM #ophthalmology #ayurveda

Sitting in on panel about infectious diseases and Ayurvedic surgery. Talk by Dr. Rajanikant Patel on surgery for mucorycosis aka eye-eating fungus #IASTAM #ayurveda

This project does not focus on 1:1 translation and making truth claims about plants but a record of who made the truth claims. Really smart. #polyglot #asianmed #IASTAM #IASTAMX

Amazing response from historians and pharmacologists. Not only does the app draw on an expensive set of corpora over two centuries but links to dozens of other datasets. #polyglot #asianmed #IASTAM #IASTAMX

the most amazing demo of polyglotasianmedicine.com by @MStanleyBaker totally transformative tool for historical research related to plants via "traceable philology" across multiple languages across Asia. #IASTAMX #IASTAM

Dropping another #BlueBerylPodcast episode!!! Tune in for insights on trauma-informed Buddhist chaplaincy