Sorting Minority Medicine in Contemporary China

The Medical Humanities & Health Studies Seminars at Indiana University and Purdue University presents Judith Farquhar.

Speaker: Judith B. Farquhar

Judith Farquhar is the Max Palevsky Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences and Department Chair. Professor Farquhar does research on traditional medicine, popular culture, and everyday life in contemporary China. Anthropological areas of interest include medical anthropology; the anthropology of knowledge and of embodiment; critical theory and cultural studies; and theories of reading, writing, and translation. Notable previous publications include Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine (1994); Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China (2002) and the edited volume Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the
Anthropology of Material Life (2007) with Margaret Lock; and Ten Thousand Things: Nurturing Life in Contemporary Beijing (2012) with Qicheng Zhang. Her current work critically examines the ongoing project of "salvaging and sorting out" minority nationality traditional medicine in contemporary China.

Pizza will be provided!