Current Position
Professor, Institute of Science, Technology, and Society, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Office
Room 314, Zhixing Building
Academic Degrees
Ph.D. Program in Science, Technology and Society, MIT
MD National Yang-Ming Medical College (now National Yang-Ming University)
Experience
2001-2002 Visiting scholar RCAST, University of Tokyo
2008 Visiting scholar, Department of Drug Policy and Management, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan
2012- Advisory Editor, Social Studies of Science (SSCI)
2016- Editor-in-Chief, East Asian Science, Technology, and Scoeity: an International Journal (SSCI and ACHI)
Specialty
Science Studies, Social Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Care.
Research Interests
My research revolving around the making of modern medicine in Non-Western societies. In particular, I look in to the globalization of medicine and its impact on East Asia from three aspects—clinical trials at transnational scale, politics of public health, and the transformation of medical professions. Previous studies include the regulatory debate over ethnicity in global clinical trials and globalization and social encounters of Asian traditional medicines. In addition to editorial affairs to promote East Asian STS studies, I have initiated an interdisciplinary filed for coping ageing people and their pharmaceutical trajectories when facing death.
Selected Publications
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2019 "An Ecumenical Medicine Yet To Come: Reflections on Needham on Medicine", Isis 110 (1): 116-121.
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2018 "Turning Ethics into Institutions: The Techno-politics of Human Research Regulation in Taiwan" Science, Technology and Society (2018) pp. 289-306 .
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2016〈医薬品規制の最前線における民族とその表象〉(in Japanese)，in Yasuko Takezawa and Tohru Sakano eds. 人種神話を解体する-Invisibility, Knowledge & Hybridity. 東京: 東京大学出版会.
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2012“Transforming States in the Era of Global Pharmaceuticals: Visioning Clinical Research in Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore.” Pp. 279-305 in Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Market, edited by Kaushik Sunder Rajan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
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2011“Techno-Politics Of Genomic Nationalism: Tracing Genomics And Its Use In Drug Regulation In Japan And Taiwan” Social Science & Medicine 73: 1200-07.
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2009“The Voice on the Bridge: Taiwan’s Regulatory Engagement with Global Pharmaceuticals.” East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal, 13(1): 51-72.
