May 6 2008
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street
Meeting Agenda
The Human Body is Like a Factory
(1933 Chinese Public Health Poster)
Missionaries in China during the Qing dynasty, c.1900.
The sink and bathroom should be bright and hygienic! (1935 Japanese Public Health Poster)
Introduction
9.15am
Session One: China
9.30am-11.00am
Mary Bullock (Emory University)
Reconsidering Rockefeller Philanthropy in Republican China
Catholic Missions, Medicine and Miracles in Rural North China: The Story of Assunta Maria Pallotta
Commentators:
Session Two: The League of Nations and Japan
11.15am-12.45pm
The Internationalization of Public Health in South and Southeast Asia, 1919-39
Fear and Loathing in Niigata: Cholera and the Birth of Japanese Public Health AdministrationCommentators:
Lunch
12.45pm-2.00pm
Conclusions
2.00pm-3.30pm