Thursday, November 19 / 3:15 PM - 5:00 PM • Room 308 (3rd Floor)

Session 51
Disease Ecologies, Notions of Modernity, and Conceptions of Illness

Chair: Nancy Tatarek, Ohio University
Discussant: Jane Pryma, Boston University

1. Navigating a New Mid-Nineteenth Century Middle Passage: ‘Liberated Africans,’ Immigration, Illness, and Decentering ‘Western’ Notions of Disease • Marcus Filippello, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

2. Temperature and Mortality in the Path to Modernity • Pau Insa-Sanchez, Jaume I University.

3. On the Margins of Science: “Making Chinese Medicine Scientific” Movement in 1930s and 1940s • Jian Meng, University of New Mexico.

4. Epidemic Performance: The Qing’s Manchurian Plague Policy, 1910-1911 • Qiong Wu, Boston University.

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