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From Colonial Medicine to International Health in East Asia

World War II almost destroyed the framework established by the three above organizations. Only American support was able to survive during the wartime period (Liu 2014). In the … See more

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Working Group: Global Asian Health Humanities

WEBWorking Group: Global Asian Health Humanities. Focusing on the East Asian context, this Working Group takes up the interrelationship between modern biomedicine and l …

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Franklin Humanities Institute

WEBClive Bell’s "Signiﬁcant Form" and the Neurobiology of Aesthetics. — Semir Zeki —. The Humanities Futures website collects "think pieces" from scholars around across the …

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Working Group: Global Health Humanities

WEBLatest Blogs. Transgender Studies: Course Listings & Sample Reading List October 15, 2019; FHI-NCCU Digital Humanities Fellows holds second annual symposium June 7, …

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Health, Illness, and Memory

WEBAbstract: As a cancer patient in remission, the author considers the meaning of health and illness as they relate to language and to his own experience growing up in Argentina …

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On Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Chinese Body as Surplus

WEBA performance artist sets off a scandal when he bites into the forearm of a fetus. The middle-class protagonist of a horror film sees ghosts through the transplanted cornea of …

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Joseph Heath On the Scalability of Cooperative Structures

WEBTime: 11:30am - 12:00am. Location: Pink Parlor, East Duke Building. Please join the PAL-FHI Seminar in Cooperation for this public event. Every system of …

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The Health Humanities and the Future of Publishing

WEBAbstract: The Health Humanities is a new field that has grown out of and expanded on the work begun in the "medical humanities," an area of study established …

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Cosmographic Experiments: Thinking, Doing, and Being with …

WEBAbstract: As the delivery of health care in China undergoes change, novel forms of "classical" Chinese medicine are emerging through marketization, …

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Environmental Activism in the Middle East: Prospects and Challenges

WEBAbstract: Environmental activism has intensified across the Middle East and North Africa over the past few decades, focusing primarily on environmental issues that affect public …

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The Black Outdoors: Fred Moten & Saidiya Hartman at Duke …

WEBThe Black Outdoors: Humanities Futures after Property and Possession seeks to interrogate the relation between race, sexuality, and juridical and theological ideas of …

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Ritual Studies: Practicing the Craft

WEBRitual Studies: Practicing the Craft. Abstract: Ritual studies emerged as an interdisciplinary field in the 1970s. For scholars in the humanities this emergence was itself a paradigm …

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Afro-Pessimism and the End of Redemption

WEBAbstract: This essay addresses the tenets of Afro-Pessimism in relation to the condition of slavery, Blackness, and Black nonexistence. It is contended that the …

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Donato Ndongo Bidyogo-Makina, translated by Anna Tybinko

WEBDonato Ndongo Bidyogo-Makina was born in Niefang (Equatorial Guinea).As a journalist, historian, and novelist, he has published for more than 40 years in various media outlets …

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Global Health & Comparative Literature: Perspectives from HIV in …

WEBThe title of this paper references five terms of specific importance to my understanding of global health humanities, as the subfield has emerged since the latter part of the …

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Race and Medicine

WEBLatest Blogs. Transgender Studies: Course Listings & Sample Reading List October 15, 2019; FHI-NCCU Digital Humanities Fellows holds second annual …

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Trash Matters: Residual Culture in Latin America

WEBFocused on Latin American cultural production, it looks at literary and visual narratives through the scope of sustainability, addressing specifically the practice of …

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TRANSGENDER STUDIES: COURSE LISTINGS AND SAMPLE …

WEBJeremy Gottlieb (Duke ‘18) conducted Internet research on courses in Transgender Studies at a selection of American and Canadian universities. The following is his resulting …

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