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

  — Mei Zhan —

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  From Colonial Medicine to International Health in East Asia

  — Michael Shiyung Liu —

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  Genetic Origami in Asian Experiments

  — Aihwa Ong —

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

  — Todd A. Henry —

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  On Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Chinese Body as Surplus

  — Ari Larissa Heinrich —

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  Toward Global Histories of Pharmaceuticals in East Asia

  — Timothy Yang —

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  Global Asian Health Humanities: Epistemologies and Practices

  — November 18, 2016 —

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  Global Asian Health Humanities: Colonialisms and Imperialisms

  — February 24, 2017 —

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  Asian Health Humanities

  — May 19, 2018 —

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  Aihwa Ong

  — University of California, Berkeley —

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  Ari Larissa Heinrich

  — University of California, San Diego —

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  Mei Zhan

  — University of California, Irvine —

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  Michael Shiyung Liu

  — Institute of Taiwan, Academia Sinica —

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  Timothy Yang

  — Pacific University —

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  Todd A. Henry

  — University of California, San Diego —