Nicole Barnes<\/span><\/span> On the Importance of History to Medicine, with Chinese Medicine as Exemplary Case<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n REGISTER<\/a>\u00a0for this event.<\/strong><\/p>\n We call our ancestors’ ideas about health and healing “theories” and our own ideas in use today “facts.” How might we understand the art and science of healing differently if we allowed ourselves to engage in a thought experiment of treating today’s medical science as a theory? This talk explores this provocation with the history of Chinese medicine as a case study.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Nicole Elizabeth Barnes is Assistant Professor of History and Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is <\/span>author<\/span> of the award-winning, open-access book\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0(Oakland: University of California Press, 2018).<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Nicole Barnes Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor, History, Duke University On the Importance of History to Medicine, with Chinese Medicine as Exemplary Case REGISTER\u00a0for this event. Lecture We call our ancestors’ ideas about health and healing “theories” and our own ideas in use today “facts.” How might we understand the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77162,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-2941","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/bhomc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/bhomc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/bhomc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/bhomc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/bhomc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/bhomc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/bhomc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/bhomc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAndrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor, History, Duke University<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\nLecture<\/h2>\n
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