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An Imagined Human Body: A Study of Chinese Medical Manuscripts
The focus of this project is on how medical knowledge was produced through practice. In particular, how medical imagination grew locally and changed t
Measuring a Patient: Psychometric and Clinimetric Validation Practices and the Emergence of Idiographic Indexes, 1970s–2000s
In the decades approaching the twenty-first century, “clinimetrics” was a way to describe a methodological approach to measuring patients that, while
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MehrThe “Cosmic Board” and the Visuality of Early and Medieval Chinese Cosmology
By focusing on reinterpreting the astronomical and divinatory device often known as the “cosmic board” or shi pan, this project aims to shed new light
The Evolution of Culture: Laboratories and Legislatures in Illiberal Hungary
In the late twentieth century, culture was adopted as an epistemic object in the life, mind, and behavioral sciences where researchers sought quantita
From Recipients to Producers: Indigenous Peasants’ Knowledge and Sustainable Farming in Peru (1950–2010)
Climate change strongly affects Latin America, causing glacial retreat, floodings, droughts, rising sea levels, and biodiversity loss. These changes s
A History of "Making Things" in West Africa, 1920–1980: Creating, Meaning Making, and Experience
This project studies artisans and craftspeople in Accra and Lagos by looking at productive processes with a focus on meaning, making, and creating. Th
Re-Thinking East Asian Medicines
This project finds new ways of thinking historically about East Asian medicines as living traditions to address a number of enduring questio
Guoqing Yang
Guoqing Yang worked as the director of the research and exhibition department at the Nanjing&...
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