April 18 Peiting C. Li (Cedars-Sinai) "When Herbs Become Drugs: Late Natural History and Early Clinical Trials in China" Zoom RSVP: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrce2vrDwuHtTE7HtTqJTG7iCo7vS39XWO In Person RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ILInDOwf0IzCN9TMRv9cMWhPxtUCe8PIFSgGKZaoi2w This talk discusses investigations of a Chinese herbal tuberculosis treatment as a window onto shifts in the production of scientific medical knowledge in 1920-1930s Shanghai. Once a remedy for consumption local to the […]
A Weber Chair In Modern European History recruitment talk. Pamela Ballinger is Professor of History and the Fred Cuny Chair in the History of Human Rights in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. She holds degrees in Anthropology (B.A. Stanford University, M. Phil Cambridge University, M.A. Johns Hopkins University) and a joint Ph.D. […]