Biography:

Wen-Hua Kuo is a professor at National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan, where he teaches social studies of medicine. A licensed physician and certified acupuncturist, his work revolves around pharmaceutical regulation and its social impacts in an East Asian context. His scholarly publications appear in a range of journals crossing several disciplines, including the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, Drug Information Journal, Asian Medicine, Science, Technology and Society, and Social Science & Medicine. His current research includes harmonization controversies in East Asian traditional medicines. He has been served as the editor-in-chief of East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal, one of the few journals serving as a bridge between STS studies done in and about this region, since 2016.