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This report contains three lectures given during acceptance ceremonies by awardees of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine’s prestigious Basham Award. While they concern episodes in the modern history of Japanese medicine, the contemporary medicine of the Yao national minority in China, and ancient Chinese self-cultivation practices, all three engage in deeper reflections on the craft and methods of the historian that will speak to all readers of Asian Medicine.
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Asian Medicine is inaugurating a new type of article in this issue, the editorial forum. For our launch of this new format, an international range of scholars working on Asian medicine across different geographical, temporal, and disciplinary contexts were invited to respond to the question “Why study Asian medicine?” The perspectives they have expressed here reflect their diverse interests, motivations, and career trajectories across the spectrum of seniority.