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Working Group: Global Asian Health Humanities

Focusing on the East Asian context, this Working Group takes up the interrelationship between modern biomedicine and local/indigenous medical practices and epistemologies as a window into the socio-cultural inflections of science and scientific knowledge, the politics of imperial and colonial regimes of health and hygiene, the economics of biomedicine in a global perspective, the cultural representation and imagination of medical concerns, among other related questions. Co-convened by Nicole Barnes (History), Leo Ching (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies), and Carlos Rojas (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies).

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  • Zhuangzi Dreaming of a Butterfly, Ming dynasty, mid-16th century, ink on silk.

    Cosmographic Experiments: Thinking, Doing, and Being with Classical Chinese Medicine

    — Mei Zhan —

  • Malaria Commission of the League of Nations, Geneva. Photograph by Poesch photographic agency, 1928

    From Colonial Medicine to International Health in East Asia

    — Michael Shiyung Liu —

  • Man Collecting a blood sample from a Tibetan subject

    Genetic Origami in Asian Experiments

    — Aihwa Ong —

  • Neuropsychiatry as Area Studies: Han Tong-se (1930–1973) and the Diagnostics of Gender/Sexual "Deviance" in Cold War South Korea

    — Todd A. Henry —

  • On Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Chinese Body as Surplus

    — Ari Larissa Heinrich —

  • Colorful pile of pills

    Toward Global Histories of Pharmaceuticals in East Asia

    — Timothy Yang —

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    Global Asian Health Humanities: Epistemologies and Practices

    — November 18, 2016 —

  • Global Asian Health Humanities: Colonialisms and Imperialisms

    — February 24, 2017 —

  • Asian Health Humanities

    — May 19, 2018 —

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  • Aihwa Ong portrait

    Aihwa Ong

    — University of California, Berkeley —

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    Mei Zhan

    — University of California, Irvine —

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    Michael Shiyung Liu

    — Institute of Taiwan, Academia Sinica —

  • Timothy Yang Portrait

    Timothy Yang

    — Pacific University —

  • Todd A. Henry

    — University of California, San Diego —

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