How did people see the Body? Medicine, Dissection and Imagination in the Late Imperial China
Ruixuan Du is a postdoctoral scholar in Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, She works in the Working Group "Common Knowledge and Its Sources in the Sinosphere, 14th–20th Centuries" in Department Artifacts, Action, Knowledge. Her research explores the verification of medical practices, focusing on the imagination of the human body and the ways in which it was approached in late imperial China. Through the study of diverse medical genres, she examines the interplay between image and text, the dynamic between inner and outer (neiwai 内外) bodily realms, and the relation between the body and its surroundings.
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Di, 26. Mai 18.00 Uhr