Lu Chen On 4-5 September 2025, the “Connecting Three Worlds: Socialism, Medicine and Global Health after WWII” project funded by the Wellcome Trust celebrated its successful conclusion with a conference at Keynes Library of Birkbeck college, University of London. The conference brought together scholars from across the globe to celebrate and reflect on ground breaking […]
Liang Wan On a February afternoon in 2025, the midday sun burned over Stone Town as I stepped into the outpatient wing of Mnazi Mmoja Hospital, Zanzibar’s largest and oldest medical facility. This visit formed part of my doctoral research on the transnational circulation of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), particularly acupuncture, as a component of […]
Lu Chen l.chen7@exeter.ac.uk With the support of the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, I had the unique opportunity to conduct research at three prestigious institutions: the Rockefeller Foundation Archive, Manuscripts & Archives at Sterling Memorial Library of Yale University, and the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University. This archival work was undertaken as […]
Liang Wan On 11 January 2025, the National Acupuncture Anaesthesia Clinical Research Alliance (国家针刺麻醉临床研究联盟) was officially launched in Shanghai, bringing together representatives from 68 medical institutions across China [figures 1]. The initiative aimed to accelerate the nationwide adoption of “modern acupuncture anaesthesia,” a reportedly TCM-Western integrative approach focused on “preoperative assessment, combined acupuncture-drug anaesthesia, and […]
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