Faculty

Current Position

Assistant Professor, School of Chinese Medicine, College of Medicine (Full-time) ╱Institute of Traditional Medicine, College of Medicine (Joint Appointment), NYCU.                                                            

Department of Chinese Medicine, Taipei Municipal Gan-Dau Hospital (Managed by Taipei Veterans General Hospital), Taiwan. Attending Physician.

Academic Degrees

2020 —2024	Ph.D.: History of Medicine	Centre for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, UK.
2015—2018	MA: Master of Social Science	Institute of Science, Technology and Society, National Yang Ming University. Taiwan.
2007—2015	BA: Doctor of Medicine	Double Degree of School of Traditional Chinese Medicine and School of Medicine, Chang Gung University. Taiwan.

Experience

November 2024—Now	Attending Physician	Department of Chinese Medicine, Taipei Municipal Gan-Dau Hospital (Managed by Taipei Veterans General Hospital).
February 2024—May 2024	Visiting Student Research Collaborators	Program in History of Science, History Department, Princeton University.
July 2017—December 2017	Researcher	Developing the Chinese Medicine Development Law and its assessment program. Ministry of Health and Welfare. MOHW106-CMAP-M-114-000425.
2016—2020	Physician	Chinese Medicine Department, Tainan Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare. Taiwan.

Specialty

Chinese Medicine, History of Chinese Medicine after the Second World War, Science, Technology and Society (STS).  

Selected Publications

l   Book and Book articles

1. Po-Hsun Chen. 2024. The Return of NRICM101 to Taiwan: The Contributions of an Herbal Formula to Both COVID-19 Treatment and Nationalism. In Ming-Cheng M. Lo, Michael Liu, Yu-Yueh Tsai eds, Taiwan’s COVID-19 Experience: Governance, Governmentality, and the Global Pandemic. London: Routledge, pp. 227-247. DOI: 10.4324/9781003438380-15

2. 瑟吉歐·希斯蒙都（Sergio Sismondo）著，王業翰、林士堯、陳禹安、陳柏勳、廖偉翔、張雅億譯，《醫藥幽靈：大藥廠如何干預醫療知識的生產、傳播與消費》（ISBN：9789865470272）。新竹：國立陽明交通大學出版社，2022年6月。

3.  陳柏勳，〈解密藥籤，理解臺灣多元醫療文化 〉，收入林文源、郭文華、王秀雲、楊谷洋編著，《科技社會人4：跟著關鍵物去旅行》（ISBN：9789865470258）。新竹：國立陽明交通大學出版社，2022年4月，頁132-149。

4. Po-Hsun Chen. 2022. The Hospital of a Hundred Years—Tainan Hospital. The Fragrance of Herbs—The Traditional Chinese Medicinal Pharmacy. Yaoqian: Medical Fortunes in Tainan. In Hsiu-Yun Wang edited, Discovering Medical Tainan. Tainan: Center for Society, Technology, and Medicine, National

Cheng Kung University, December, pp. 6-9, 58-61, 70-73. ISBN: 9786267227039.

l   Journal articles

1. Po-Hsun Chen and Tin Hang Hung. 2025. “Fair Enough?—Scientific and Historic Perspectives on Sex Controversies at the Paris 2024 Olympics.” East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal 19 (1): 115–23. doi:10.1080/18752160.2025.2454829. (SSCI, Q2)

2. 陳柏勳、林昭庚，〈台灣中醫藥巨擘：陳立夫〉。《中國醫藥研究叢刊》，2023，第34期，頁71-85。

3. 陳柏勳，〈臺灣多元民俗醫療技術者與技術物：以張錦英女士及其藥方為例〉《古今論衡》（中央研究院歷史語言研究所出版），2022，第38期，頁99-120。

4. 陳柏勳，〈防疫下的中醫治療準則與知識空間〉。《科技、醫療與社會》，2020，第30期，頁243-255。（TSSCI & THCI core）

l   Book review

1. Po-Hsun Chen. 2022. Book review. Yan Liu, Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China, East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, 16(2): 259-262, DOI: 10.1080/18752160.2021.1992577 （SSCI）

2. Book Review: Mao’s Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China. Durham: Duke University Press〉，《科技、醫療與社會》，2021，第33期，頁203-211。（TSSCI & THCI core）

l   International Conference papers & presentations

1. Po-Hsun Chen. “National Acupuncture Policy in the Cold War.” The 5th World Congress of Taiwan Studies. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. 2025/5/21-23.

2. Po-Hsun Chen. “Stimulated by Acupuncture Anesthesia: Scientization and Institutionalization of Acupuncture Research in Cold War Taiwan.” The 98th annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine. Boston, MA, USA. 2025/5/1-4.

3. Po-Hsun Chen. “Validating Chinese medicine and nationhood scientifically by monkeys: Taiwan’s acupuncture researches in the Cold War.” The 2024 quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2024/7/16-19.

4. Po-Hsun Chen. “Tackling Modern Industrial Toxicants with Traditional Medicines: Chinese Medical Therapy Project for PCBs Poisonings in the Post-WWII Taiwan.” 2024 Annual Conference of The Association for Asian Studies, Seattle, Washington, USA. 2024/3/14-17.

5. Po-Hsun Chen. “ ‘Herbal Medicine May Not Be Without Risk’: Chinese Herbal Nephropathy Worldwide and Alternative Regulation in Taiwan.” In “Rethinking Injuries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Harm, Safety, and Society,” an international conference, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 2024/3/7-9.

Invited Speeches & Seminars

1.     Po-Hsun Chen (2024, June). “Bidirectional Demonstration of Joseph Needham’s Taiwan Visit in 1984.” The Needham Research Institute Easter Term seminar. Cambridge, UK. 2024/06/14.

2.     Po-Hsun Chen (2024, June). “Chinese Medicine or Taiwanese Medicine: Pandemic, Regulations, and Taiwan’s Nationhood.” Oxford Taiwan Reading Group, Oxford, UK. 2024/06/06.

3.   Po-Hsun Chen (2024, April). “Alternative Hygienic Modernity: Chinese Medical Therapy Project for Industrial Pollution in Cold War Taiwan.” The Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. 2024/4/11.