Notes on Contributors

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Jason Blalack M.S., L.Ac. is the translator and compiler of, Qin Bo-Wei’s 56 Treatment Methods: Writing Precise Prescriptions, with clinical commentary by Wu Bo-Ping (Seattle: Eastland Press, 2011). Jason is a graduate of the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in San Diego and maintains a full-time practice in Boulder, Colorado. He runs a website highlighting discussion of Chinese medicine case studies www.chinesemedicinedoc.com/practitioners.

Florence Bretelle-Establet is a Chargée de Recherche at CNRS/Université Paris Diderot. She wrote La santé en Chine du Sud (1989–1928), (Paris: CNRS Editions, Asie Orientale, 2002). She also co-edited two books: Qu’était-ce qu’écrire une encyclopédie en China, Numéro hors-série de la revue Extreme-Orient, Extreme-Occident (Paris, 2007) and Looking at it from Asia: the Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science (New York: Springer, the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 2010).

Chip Chace L.Ac. is the editor and translator of a number of books on Chinese medicine, most recently, Li Shizhen’s Exposition on the Eight Extraordinary Vessels (Qi Jing Ba Mai Kao) (Seattle: Eastland Press, 2010). He is on the faculty of the Seattle Institute of Oriental Medicine and maintains a private practice in Boulder, Colorado.

Keiko Daidoji is affiliated with Keio University as a postgraduate research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. She graduated the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 2009. Her recent research is to analyse the historical formation of Japanese Kampo medicine, from the perspectives of the transnational flows of medical knowledge.

Asaf Goldschmidt is an Associate Professor at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He wrote The Evolution of Chinese Medicine: Song Dynasty, 960–1200, Needham Institute Research Series.

(London/New York: Routledge, 2009). Currently, he is a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey (July 2014–August 2015).

Eric I. Karchmer is an assistant professor of Anthropology at Appalachian State University. He has published several articles that explore the practice of Chinese medicine in modern China from both ethnographic and historical perspectives. He is currently completing revisions to his book manuscript, Double Truths: Postcolonial Transformations in Chinese Medicine. In addition to his academic research, he is also a licensed practitioner of acupuncture in the state of North Carolina.

Volker Scheid is Professor of East Asian Medicines in the Faculty of Science & Technology at the University of Westminster, London, where he directs the EASTmedicine Research Group. As Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in the Medical Humanities he leads a large scale research project entitled Beyond Tradition: Ways of Knowing and Styles of Practice in East Asian Medicine, 1000 to the pres- ent. He is author of Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China: Plurality and Syn (Durham/London: Duke University Press, 2002) and Currents of Traditions in Chinese Medicine, 1626–2006 (Seattle: Eastland Press, 2007) and co-author of Chinese Herbal Medicine: Formulas & Strategies (Seattle: Eastland Press, 2009). Besides his academic work he is also a practitioner of Chinese medicine.

Soyoung Suh graduated from the University of California in Los Angeles in 2007. After spend- ing one year at Harvard University as a Post Doctoral Fellow in the ‘History of modern science and technology in East Asia’, she was affiliated with the University of Westminster in London collaborating in a research project entitled ‘Treating the Liver: Towards A Transnational History of Medicine in East Asia, 1500–2000’ funded by the Wellcome Trust. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of the Department of History at Dartmouth College. Her articles are published in Asian Medicine, Korean Journal of Medical History, and Culture Medicine and Psychiatry. She is now in the process of revising her dissertation into a book, tentatively titled Naming the Local: Medicine and Identity in Korea since the Fifteenth Century.

Hanmo Zhang is an early China scholar currently teaching at the State University of New York, New Paltz. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles

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