All at the Centre were delighted to hear that current PhD student Rohan Deb Roy has been awarded the prestigious Taniguchi Medal. The Asian Society for the History of Medicine awards the Taniguchi Medal for the best essay by a Graduate Student on the History of Medicine involving Asia once every two years. Rohan has been invited to receive the Medal at the ASHM bi-annual conference to be held in Yunnan (China) in November 2008.   

Rohan's essay was titled 'The making of Burdwan fever'. It studies how knowledge of a 'malarial epidemic' in the Burdwan division in British India was constituted. It follows the convergence of a set of assumptions and investments. These explain, it argues, how a cluttered assortment of dispersed and dissimilar debilities could be put together as expressions of a single, continuous, coherent 'malarial epidemic' in the Burdwan division in the 1870s.

This represents something of a "double" for the Centre, as the previous holder of the Medal was Liew Kai Khiun, another student here under the tutelage of Dr Sanjoy Bhattacharya.