Sabine Wilms   

Sabine Wilms, Ph.D.

Research, Lectures, Translation 

Past Presentations

“Leaking, Flooding, and Gushing Below the Girdle: The Origins of Gynecology in Early Chinese Medicine.” Presented at the Sixth International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicine (ICTAM VI), Austin, Texas on April 27-30, 2006.

“Nourishing the Fetus in Medieval China: Illustrating the Ten Months of Pregnancy in the Ishimpō.” Presented at the Conference on “Chinese Medicine: A Visual History,” Beijing, China, on September 14-17, 2005.

“Female Pathologies and Treatments in Medieval Chinese Manuscripts.” Presented at the 11th International Conference on the History of Science, Munich, Germany on August 15-20, 2005.

“The Significance of the Female Body in Medieval Chinese Medicine.”  Barnard Medieval & Renaissance Conference, “Medicine Across Cultures: 600-1600,” December 4, 2004.

“Why Female Bodies Matter. Reproduction, Cosmology, and Cultivation of Life in Early and Medieval China.”  Presented at Mount Holyoke College, MA, March 11, 2003.

“From Leaking Discharge to Irregular Menstruation: The Conceptualization of Female Pathology in Medieval China.”  Presented at the AAS Annual Meeting, San Diego, March 4-7, 2004.

“The Art of Chinese Tea Drinking, or How to Introduce Students to Chinese Aesthetics, Philosophy, Religion, and much more.” Presented at Wakonse - Arizona, Excellency in College Teaching, Camp Tontozona, Arizona, on May 18, 2003.

“On Intercourse with Ghosts and Other Gynaecological Matters in Medieval China.”  Presented in the series on Medical Texts in Translation at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, UK, on January 28, 2003.

“The Art of Menstrual Balancing in Medieval China.”  Presented at the conference on “Menstruation: Blood, Body, Brand”, Liverpool University Medical Institution Conference Centre, UK, on January 25, 2003.

“The Treatment of Women in Medieval Chinese Medicine: A Critical Interpretation of the Gynecological Content in Sun Simiao’s Beiji qianjin yaofang.”  Presented at the 44th Anniversary Annual Conference of the American Association for Chinese Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, on October 27, 2002.

“Appreciating (and Learning and Teaching) Traditional Chinese Medicine in its Cultural Context.” Presented at Wakonse - Arizona, Excellency in College Teaching, Camp Tontozona, Arizona, on May 17, 2002.

“Sun Simiao's Gynecological and Obstetrical Writings.  Selections from his Essays.”  Presented at the Conference of the Council of Oriental Medical Publishers, University of California, San Diego, November 6, 2000.

“A Translation of Yixinfang, volume 23, sections 3-9.”  Presented at the conference on “Chinese Healing Traditions:  Texts, Translations, Teaching.”  Princeton University, May 5-7, 2000.

“Spirit Possession in Japan's New Religions.  A Case Study in the Ideology of Academic Research.”  Presented at the Rocky Mountain/Southwest Japan Seminar:  Japanese Identities, Past and Present.  Arizona State University, April 5-6, 1996.