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Performance and Meaning Making in Museums

  • Anna Catalani
  • 4 minute read
A review of Does “pointing at” in museum exhibitions make a point? A study of visitors’ performances in three museums…
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Homoeopathic Medicine & Colonialism in Bengal

  • Srirupa Prasad
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A review of Homoeopathic Families, Hindu Nation and the Legislating State: Making of a Vernacular Science, Bengal: 1866-1941, by Shinjini…
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Addiction & Drug Use in Soviet Tajikistan

  • Sophie Hohmann
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  • 6 minute read
A review of The Administration of Addiction: The Politics of Medicine and Opiate Use in Soviet Tajikistan, 1924-1958, by Alisher…
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Revealing the Sensorial World of Plants

  • Tanja Gesell
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A review of The Sensorial Invisibility of Plants: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry through Bio Art and Neurobiology, by Laura Cinti. Laura…
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Daoism & Medicine in Early Medieval China

  • Ori Tavor
  • 6 minute read
A review of Daoists and Doctors: The Role of Medicine in Six Dynasties Shangqing Daoism, by Michael Stanley-Baker. Michael Stanley-Baker’s…
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Transformations of “Sowa Rigpa” in Central Tibet

  • Stephan Kloos
  • 5 minute read
A review of Tibetan Medicine on the Margins: Twentieth Century Transformations of the Traditions of Sowa Rigpa in Central Tibet,…
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Alternative Treatments for Neurasthenia in Japan

  • Masahiro Sato
  • 4 minute read
A review of A Disorder of Ki: Alternative Treatments for Neurasthenia in Japan, 1890-1945, by Yu-Chuan Wu. Since the latter…
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Cancer & Causality

  • Raffaella Campaner
  • 5 minute read
A review of Causality in Medicine with Particular Reference to the Viral Causation of Cancers, by Brendan Clarke. Brendan Clarke…
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A Day in the Artificial Life

  • Sophia Roosth
  • 4 minute read
A review of Harnessing Non-Modernity: A Case Study of Artificial Life, by Christine Aicardi. Twenty-five years in, and Artificial Life…
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Sadness & Self in Early Modern England

  • Kristine Steenbergh
  • 8 minute read
A review of Secret Contagions: Sadness and the Self in Early Modern England, by Erin Sullivan. The history of emotions…
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