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Christos Lynteris
Christos Lynteris is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. He has p...
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Fountain of Knowledge: How Science Turned Urine into Gold
What is the relationship between materials and value, and how have they played into scientific practice and authority? This project unravels the
Science Social Special: There Is No One History of Science (but It’s All Interconnected)
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More"The Meaning of Medical Divination" (yi yi yi 醫易義): Connecting yi 醫 with yi 易 in 11–17th-Century China
The Chinese physician Zhang Jiebin 張介賓 (1563–1640) wove connections between medicine and divination throughout his three-part medical treatise, the Cl
Making Sense of the Environs: Exposure as Epistemic Action
In the wake of the nineteenth-century invention of photography, the historical semantics of "exposure" broadened to include exposing a sensitized surf
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
Communities of Reproductive Knowledge
Reproduction is rarely out of the news. Despite fierce competition for public attention from pandemic, war, climate change, social unrest, and economi
The Mask—Arrayed
The Mask-Arrayed explores the material, technological, and cultural aspects of the most iconic artifact of the COVID-19 crisis—the face mask. His
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