East Asian Medical History

Catalog description

This graduate seminar introduces students to critical and up-to-date scholarship on East Asian medical history. The focus will depend on students’ interest and new scholarship of the time, but in principle we will cover multiple regions/culture in East Asia in both premodern and modern times. Although the focus is medical history, we will also introduce essential and related questions in the history of science of East Asia, such as the “Needham Question.” The goal is to equip graduate students in East Asian studies and in history of science/medicine with the ability to teach surveys on East Asian medical history and to familiarize them with the important issues and methods that have developed in this field.