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INAUGURAL LECTURE - Professor Vivienne Lo: Communities of Asian Medical Practice



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This lecture not only summarises my research into the communities and networks that have created and disseminated medico-culinary knowledge to and from the ancient and medieval Chinese worlds; it also celebrates those interdisciplinary communities that have dedicated themselves to research more broadly into Asian medicine: the societies, journals, practitioners, teachers, students, artists and academics that I have been proud to work alongside. These are the people promoting diversity in research and on the curriculum, combatting racism in our academic system, promoting drug discovery, integrated public health and building the cultural connectivity do so. The subjects and people will begin in ancient China and take us along the so-called Silk Roads through Central Asia and into the modern world.

About the Speaker

Vivienne Lo
at UCL

My diverse family of farmers, migrant restaurateurs, and diplomats working on Sino-British collaborations have all indelibly shaped my academic career. I had many related jobs, coming late to academia: I graduated in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and SOAS at 35 and from SOAS with a PhD (1997). Researching and teaching the early and medieval history of Chinese food and medicine at UCL for over 20 years now, I translate and interpret manuscripts and artefacts. [While considering the broad socio-political contexts for scientific innovation I read my sources for culturally specific aspects of sensory perception: the everyday experiences of sickness and health, of food, sex and medicine. The interdisciplinary approach that I have developed also provides a hermeneutics for the question, why does Chinese medicine, broadly defined, remain the most popular traditional medicine worldwide?] In recent years I have been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Peking University for our collaborative work on Film, History and the Medical Humanities and a related Dual Degree programme.

More about Vivienne Lo
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/people/academic-staff/professor-vivienne-lo

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https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/events/2022/mar/inaugural-lecture-professor-vivienne-lo-communities-asian-medical-practice

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