Meng Zhang

Kanazawa used to be one of the best known Japanese places in China for its hospitality to Chinese medical students.

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Lawn with deck chairs and a redbrick university office building in the background.

CHSTM’s home, the Simon Building. Looks almost nice like this.

Now out! Hope it will be used for teaching (as well as research).

Wooo! Meaning you can read my first article, published 20 years ago! - back when we got offprints🗃️
(I’m so
Old)

New Issue: Asian Medicine, Volume 20!
Highlights include Maarten Bode on “Revitalizing Ayurveda,” Kenneth Zysk’s Basham Medal Address, articles by Colin Garon & Arthur Erqi Cheng, essays by Lan A. Li, Stephan Kloos & Bernard Coops, plus 10 book reviews.
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CHSTM Research Seminar, 27 May 2025 Professor Mark Harrison (University of Oxford) Protest and Identity Formation in the Time of Covid: The UK in Historical Context

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These case studies reveal how the mask emerged at the intersection of bacteriology, imperial politics, and human struggle, offering a transnational perspective on the politics of disease prevention and the lived experience of epidemics in East Asia.

Through eight scholarly essays focusing on China, Japan, and Korea, the volume examines the role of masks in key public health crises, including the Manchurian plague, the Japanese plague outbreaks, and the colonial medical governance of Korea.

This book explores the deep and complex history of the face mask in East Asia, tracing its origins not only to scientific discovery but also to the profound suffering endured by its people.

Thank you so much!

And Akihisa Setoguchi (Kyoto University) & Mary Augusta Brazelton (University of Cambridge)

It’s an edited volume including articles from Christos Lynteris (University of St Andrews), Meng Zhang (University of Manchester), Sarah Xia Yu (DeSales University), Andrew Gordon (Harvard University), Tomohisa Sumida (Keio University), Jaehwan Hyun (Pusan National University)

It’s officially out!

Cool design!

Congress 2025 - British Society for the History of Medicine BSHM Congress 2025 Open to all interested in the history of medicine and healthcare The 31st BSHM Congress will be held at the University of Leeds Wed 10 – Sat 13 September 2025 The President and Offi...

May 20 is the deadline to submit an abstract for a presentation or poster at our Congress from 10-13 Sept in Leeds. bshm.org.uk/congress-2025/ It can be on one of the three conference themes - or a miscellaneous topic in the history of medicine and healthcare. #medicalhistory

The view from Sam Alex

Congrats!

Decentering Rudolf Virchow (Chapter 1) - Medicine on a Larger Scale Medicine on a Larger Scale - May 2025

Now published, #OpenAccess: Carsten Timmermann, ‘De-Centering Rudolf Virchow - The Making of a Social Medicine Pioneer’.

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A great topic. Very useful for studying the Japanese interpretation of modernity.