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He BIAN
He Bian studied History of Science at Harvard University and graduated with a PhD in 2014. She h...
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Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Material Culture in Early Modern China, 1500-1800
This project examines the crucial period between sixteenth and eighteenth century in Chinese cultural history through the lens of pharmacy – broadly c
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Crisis of Humankind and Scientific Truth: Reflection on Science at the Starnberg Max Planck Institute (1970–1980)
With the founding of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of the Scientific and Technical World in Starnberg in 1970, the Max Planck Society had cre
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Validating the Animal Welfare Sciences in 20th Century Western Europe: A Scientific or a Political Practice?
Animal welfare was originally devised as a scientific tool, in order to provide rational, all-convincing arguments to animal advocacy. It is therefore
Knowing the Shadow: The Experiential Dimension of Matter
This research project focuses on the notion of prime matter, especially in consideration of premodern discussions of matter theories in philosophy and
Two Ways of Experience in the Writings of Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)
Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) was a prophet and a unique intellectual. Hildegard wrote that her visionary experiences were the sole source for the v
Justin Stearns
Justin Stearns received his PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University in 2007, and h...
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The Pineal Gland, Comets, and Subtle Matter: The Natural Objects with Which Cartesians Tried to Conquer France (1637–1691)
The Descartes who is now read and commented on is the Descartes who wrote the “Meditationes de prima philosophia.” But in the seventeenth century, the
“The Global War Against the Rat and the Epistemic Emergence of Zoonosis” in China
Funded by the Wellcome Trust with an Investigator Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences (grant number 217988/Z/19/Z) The Global War Against the
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From Technocracy to Scientocracy? Science-Policy Interactions in the Chinese Local State, 1990–2020
With the beginning of the Reform and Opening Era (gaige kaifang) at the end of the 1970s, pragmatism and institutionalization began to replace tr
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This project seeks to understand the scope and nature of scientist/scholar-bureaucrat intersections and interactions in Chinese local governance, focu