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Join us in our conversation with Lan Li, PhD – a scholar of global East Asian medicine, acupuncture, sensation, and histories of science – in which we discuss how to take your work seriously without taking yourself too seriously, as well as thinking about situated, embodied practices. Using Lan’s varied career as a historian, media producer, and research director, we think through different methods for disseminating research, medical knowledge, and medical histories.
SOURCES AND SCHOLARS MENTIONED
Interactive article that touches on topics covered in Lan’s forthcoming book: Lan A. Li, “Sunk from Sight: Mapping the Fluid Body” (2020)
Christine J. Walley and Chris Boebel (MIT / Exit Zero film)
Shigehisa Kuriyama
Lan A. Li, “Emotional Spleens: Death by Overthinking in Classical Chinese Texts” (2022)
Alexander Wragge-Morley and Metaphors of the Mind
Pierce Salguero, The Jivaka Project
Medicine, Science, and the Humanities (MSH) program at Johns Hopkins
Walter Rodney
Center for Black Brown and Queer Studies
Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics (2019)
Ahmed Ragab
Jeremy Greene
Elizabeth O’Brien
Alexandre (Sasha) White
Graham Mooney
Nathaniel Comfort
Mary Fissell
Join us in our conversation with Nicole Labruto, anthropologist and director of the Medicine, Science, and the Humanities undergraduate major here at Johns Hopkins. In this episode, we discuss both Dr. Labruto’s own anthropological research – on sugar cane, science, the environment, and society –...
Published 12/29/23
In this mini episode, we speak with Matthew Klingle about the paper that he presented at the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology's colloquium series, titled "'Wear and Tear': An Ecology of Diabetes, Stress, and Discrimination."
Published 12/15/23