Part of the Health Humanities Speaker Series at Penn State University’s Abington College: “Asian Responses to COVID-19” (Feb 2021) Combating Epidemics: A Historical PerspectiveYan Liu (University of Buffalo, SUNY) Abstract: This talk examines a wide array of strategies developed by medical figures, religious practitioners, and political actors in fighting epidemics throughout Chinese history, and reflects […]
Category: Webinar Series
Robust responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have not only come from biomedical healthcare workers. Researchers and clinicians in the world’s traditional healthcare systems have also mounted large-scale and localised efforts. Despite the racialized and politicised representations of these efforts in Anglophone media, serious professionals have been performing ongoing research, protocols, and clinical treatments, and have […]
Introduction: Prof. Dr. Angelika C. Messner (IASTAM President, Kiel University) Moderator: Dr Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Goldsmiths, University of London) Historical Contours of the Medieval Afro-Eurasian Disease Landscape: New Findings from Genetics and Medical HistoryProf. Monica H. Green (Independent scholar) Recent developments in genetics have given a new resolution to long-standing questions about the origins and dissemination […]