Global Asian Health Humanities: Epistemologies and Practices

This workshop examines the interrelationship between modern biomedicine (in its many variants) and an eclectic array of local and indigenous medical practices and epistemologies in Asia. The three presenters offer a window into the socio-cultural inflections of science and scientific knowledge, the politics of imperial and colonial regimes of health and hygiene, the economics of biomedicine in a global perspective, the cultural representation and imagination of medical concerns, and the moral calculus implicit in modern biopolitical and biomedical regimes (and their indigenous and premodern counterparts).