global Asian health humanities Archives - Franklin Humanities Institute https://humanitiesfutures.org/tag/global-asian-health-humanities/ Humanities Futures Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:20:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Cosmographic Experiments: Thinking, Doing, and Being with Classical Chinese Medicine https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/cosmographic-experiments-thinking-doing-and-being-with-classical-chinese-medicine/ Fri, 06 Jul 2018 16:47:51 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=3226 In questioning the status of materialist theory and the process of theorization in traditional Chinese medicine, and in postsocialist life more broadly speaking, classical Chinese medicine advocates imagine nondialectical materialisms as immanent ways of thinking, doing, and being in the world.

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]]> Genetic Origami in Asian Experiments https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/genetic-origami-in-asian-experiments/ Mon, 04 Jun 2018 19:14:54 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=3196 How can the humanities and social sciences can be blended in a contemporary inquiry into the flow of bioscience to sites in Asia?

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]]> From Colonial Medicine to International Health in East Asia https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/from-colonial-medicine-to-international-health-in-east-asia/ Wed, 25 Apr 2018 18:13:16 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=3108 This essay examines in depth the history of colonial medicine in East Asia and its transition to an international health initiative.

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]]> Toward Global Histories of Pharmaceuticals in East Asia https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/toward-global-histories-pharmaceuticals-east-asia/ Mon, 05 Mar 2018 19:19:17 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=3038 This brief essay considers the history of pharmaceuticals in East Asia. It begins with a discussion of the burgeoning popularity of cultural and social histories of modern medicine in East Asia, and it describes the benefits and potential pitfalls of examining medicines as commodities.

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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 https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/neuropsychiatry-area-studies-han-tong-se-1930-1973-diagnostics-gendersexual-deviance-cold-war-south-korea/ Wed, 25 Oct 2017 19:47:56 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=2784 Part of a larger book project, this short essay illuminates understudied ways in which nonnormative sexuality and gender variance firmly undergirded authoritarian development in Cold War South Korea.

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]]> On Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Chinese Body as Surplus https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/on-biopolitical-aesthetics-and-the-chinese-body-as-surplus/ Wed, 05 Jul 2017 23:01:31 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=2493 This essay introduces the idea of biopolitical aesthetics and argues for a more nuanced attention to the figure of the medically commodified body in contemporary Chinese and transnational literature, art, and popular culture.

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