cultural history of drugs

Theme one investigates the construction and deconstruction of medical culture, paying close attention to material culture. It examines the theoretical principles and methods for the use of drugs and medical instrument, and considers the culturally conceived qualities of drug ingredients, all to interpret the construction and making of medicaments.

project

  1. Japan derived her material medica from China, however, up to the Edo period she developed her own specialty
  2. Dr. Tsungming Tu and Scientific Research on Materia Medica in Transnational Contexts
  3. Medical Missions Between Social Medicine and Parasitology Flukes, Worm Eggs, and Mites in Discourses and Practices of Tropical Medicine in Southern China and Taiwan (1860s – 1910s)
  4. Camphor – coming to and circulating in Europe
  5. Danggui and its German Connections—A Menstruation Drug at the Turn of the 20th Century
  6. Medicinal plants in Agriculture Experiment Stations: Bio-exchange and resources control between Taiwan and Japanese Empire
  7. Food, Drug and Dirt: Material Culture of the Placenta in Ming China
  8. Medicines Across Eurasia
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