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Global Health and Humanities
Book Talk Series No.4 "Anxious China”: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy
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Global Health and Humanities
Book Talk Series No.5 "Seeking Commonality of Mental Suffering in a Divided World-Book Launch"
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24 November 2020
Corrupt Your Flesh and Blood with a Festering, Sickening Pus:” The Politics of the Family and the Anti-Vaccination Movement in the United States, 1890-1920” organized by Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and School of Humanities at CPD-1.24, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

19 September 2020
*Pandemic 101 – Voices from Asia by International Programs, the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, and the Iowa Global Health Network

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.

For news on Visiting Scholar and Graduate Student Programme, please click here.

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