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"The Meaning of Medical Divination" (yi yi yi 醫易義): Connecting yi 醫 with yi 易 in 11–17th-Century China
The Chinese physician Zhang Jiebin 張介賓 (1563–1640) wove connections between medicine and divination throughout his three-part medical treatise, the Cl
At the Edge of Land and Ocean: Arctic Indigenous Peoples and Fish Skin
This project addresses multiple issues related to contemporary sustainable fashion practices, with approaches inspired by Arctic fish skin heritage, s
Seminar | Mar 20, 2023 | 11:00 bis 13:00
Universal Aspects of Scientific Practice: Commitment, Methodology, and Technique
MehrThe Forgotten History of Intercropping: On the Marginalization of Alternatives to Industrial Agriculture
Intercropping—the practice of growing mixtures of crops in a single field, in contrast with the “pure stands” typical of industrial agriculture—has lo
An Imagined Human Body: A Study of Chinese Medical Manuscripts
The focus of this project is on how medical knowledge was produced through practice. In particular, how medical imagination grew locally and changed t
Measuring a Patient: Psychometric and Clinimetric Validation Practices and the Emergence of Idiographic Indexes, 1970s–2000s
In the decades approaching the twenty-first century, “clinimetrics” was a way to describe a methodological approach to measuring patients that, while
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MehrFrom Recipients to Producers: Indigenous Peasants’ Knowledge and Sustainable Farming in Peru (1950–2010)
Climate change strongly affects Latin America, causing glacial retreat, floodings, droughts, rising sea levels, and biodiversity loss. These changes s
A History of "Making Things" in West Africa, 1920–1980: Creating, Meaning Making, and Experience
This project studies artisans and craftspeople in Accra and Lagos by looking at productive processes with a focus on meaning, making, and creating. Th