Body & Care

The second theme constitutes body care. This group examines the cultural norms, social needs, personnel, material instruments, and technologies for the care of the body. The areas cover personal and public hygiene, life nurturance (yangsheng), soma-psychology, and elderly and disability care.

project

  1. Materiality of home and care in digital times: Robots, and human-machine interactions for elderly people in Taiwan and elsewhere
  2. Infrastructured Care: Emergent Forms of Life with Standards and Medications
  3. Healing, Observation and Experimentation: Colonial Medical Practice in the Late Nineteenth Century
  4. Body, Labour, and Self: The Uses of Work in Morita Therapy
  5. Newly Emerging Ageing and Caring Realities in 21st Taiwan and Germany
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