Lecture Information:

Time:  April 24, 2023 (Monday) 10:00-11:30

Venue：Room 620, Yifu Teaching Building, Peking University Health Science Center

Speaker: Dr. David Chen

Moderator: Associate Professor Chen Qi (School of Health Humanities, Peking University)

Commentator: Zhang Daqing, Distinguished Professor of Boya (School of Health Humanities, Peking University)

Lecture Title: Modern Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine: The origin of Chinese medicine research in Peking Union Medical College

Abstract:

The origin of scientific research activities of TCM is a problem worth studying in the history of modern Chinese medicine and culture. The systematic analysis of Chinese medicinal materials by experimental scientific methods such as medicinal chemistry and pharmacology began in Peking Union Medical College. The research of the university's pharmaceutical Science Department (Department) in the first ten years (1921-1931) centered on traditional Chinese medicine, which had a profound influence on the scientific research of modern Chinese traditional medicine, the training of research personnel, the arrangement of traditional Chinese medicine knowledge and the international dissemination.

This lecture reconstructs the process of the origin of this research project by studying many archival materials, and discusses the purpose of transplanting advanced modern scientific medicine from Europe and America. Peking Union Medical College, modeled by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Rockefeller Medical Institute, has conducted a large-scale study on the causes of the contradiction phenomenon of traditional Chinese medicine used in Far Eastern traditional medicine, and made a reflection and evaluation on the narrative mode of the historical process of the development of scientific events.

  This lecture reconstructs the process of the origin of this research project by studying many archival materials, and discusses the purpose of transplanting advanced modern scientific medicine from Europe and America. Peking Union Medical College, modeled by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Rockefeller Medical Institute, has conducted a large-scale study on the causes of the contradiction phenomenon of traditional Chinese medicine used in Far Eastern traditional medicine, and made a reflection and evaluation on the narrative mode of the historical process of the development of scientific events.    This lecture reconstructs the process of the origin of this research project by studying many archival materials, and discusses the purpose of transplanting advanced modern scientific medicine from Europe and America. Peking Union Medical College, modeled by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Rockefeller Medical Institute, has conducted a large-scale study on the causes of the contradiction phenomenon of traditional Chinese medicine used in Far Eastern traditional medicine, and made a reflection and evaluation on the narrative mode of the historical process of the development of scientific Speaker:

David Chen is an independent researcher on the history of science and an alumnus of Beijing Medical University. His main research interests are the history of physiological science (physiology, pharmacology and biochemistry) and the related history of transnational and cross-cultural academic exchanges during the Republic of China. He has published "Lin Kesheng's Research", "Rediscovery of ephedrine and the Development of Experimental Pharmacology during the Republic of China", "A Preliminary study of the Members of the Physiological Society of China in its founding Period", "Biography of some early Members of the Physiological Society of China", and other papers, reviews and the meeting report.