29 April 2022 "Science, Technology, and Medicine Seminar 2021-22 Series "Indigenous Healers and Ayahuasca Tourists in a Capitalist World" co-organized by Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and Medical Ethics Unit, LKS Faculty of Medicine
30 March 2022 "Science, Technology, and Medicine Seminar 2021-22 Series "Trans-Speciated Thinking: Rat Training as Epistemological Practice in Tanzania" organized by Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and Medical Ethics
25 March 2022 "HKU Global Health & Humanities Book Talk Series "Reimagining Social Medicine from the South" co-organized by Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and Medical Ethics & Humanities Unit, LKS Faculty of Medicine
23 Februrary 2022 "HKU Global Health & Humanities Book Talk Series "The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand" co-organized by Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and Medical Ethics & Humanities Unit, LKS Faculty of Medicine
10 January 2022 "HKU Global Health & Humanities Book Talk Series" Beyond the Substance: Psychedelics and the Challenge of Medical Research and Drug Policy" co-organized by Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and Medical Ethics & Humanities Unit, LKS Faculty of Medicine
12 November 2021 "Rebuilding Smiles: The Construction of Bodies with Cleft Lip and/or Palate in Medical Practice" co-organized by Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and the Department of Sociology
26 October 2021 "Science, Technology, and Medicine Seminar 2021-22 Series" organized by Centre for the Humanities and Medicine
27 September 2021 "Science, Technology, and Medicine Seminar 2021-22 Series" organized by Centre for the Humanities and Gender Studies Programme
14 May 2021 "Global Health & Humanities Book Talk Series No.5 " Seeking Commonality of Mental Suffering in a Divided World-Book Launch" organized by Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and Medical Ethics & Humanities Unit, LKS Faculty of Medicine
16 April 2021
“Global Health & Humanities Book Talk Series No.4 "Anxious China" organized by Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and Medical Ethics & Humanities Unit, LKS Faculty of Medicine
12 April 2021 "Global Health & Humanities Book Talk Series No.3 "Global Medicine in Chinese East Asia, 1911-1970" co-organized by Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and Medical Ethics & Humanities Unit, LKS Faculty of Medicine
26 February 2021
“Global Health & Humanities Book Talk Series No.2 "Toxic Politics" organized by Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and Medical Ethics & Humanities Unit, LKS Faculty of Medicine
25 February 2021
“Global Health & Humanities Book Talk Series No.1 "Epidemic Illusions" organized by Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and Medical Ethics & Humanities Unit, LKS Faculty of Medicine
Dr. Laura Meek wins a MAE-MAT Early Career Paper Prize
Dr. Laura Meek’s article ”The Grammar of Leprosy: Temporal Politics & An Impossible Subject" has won the MAE-MAT Early Career Paper Prize from the Medical Anthropology Europe network (MAE) within the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) and the Medicine Anthropology Theory journal (MAT). Congratulations Laura!
Dr. Laura Meek spoke to the HKU Bulletin about her research
Laura Meek wins a Medical Anthropology award
Laura Meek has won the 2019 Science, Technology, and Medicine Special Interest Group Graduate Student Paper Prize from the Society for Medical Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Congratulations Laura!
Professor Peckham on medical neutrality and humanitarian roles of medicine in Hong Kong
Professor Peckham spoke to the media in the context of a polio outbreak
Dr. Priscilla Song spoke to the HKU Bulletin about her research
Professor Peckham has been awarded the MB Lee Endowed Professorship in the Humanities and Medicine
Mingpao interviewed Dr. Song about her research and her book Biomedical Odysseys (in Chinese)
Launch of a new book series, Histories and Ecologies of Health, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press and edited by Robert Peckham.
Robert Peckham and Ria Sinha publish a paper on ‘Anarchitectures of Health: Futures for the Biomedical Drone’ in Global Public Health.
Dr. Priscilla Song Awarded Francis L. K. Hsu Book Prize. Please click here for details.
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