Judith B. Farquhar
About
Contact Information
Office: Haskell 201
Phone: (773) 702-7735
Email: farquhar@uchicago.edu
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Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
(PhD, U Chicago 1986) Max Palevsky Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College, does research on traditional medicine, popular culture, and everyday life in contemporary China. Anthropological areas of interest include medical anthropology; the anthropology of knowledge and of embodiment; critical theory and cultural studies; and theories of reading, writing, and translation. (On Leave 2012-13)
Selected Works
Selected Publications
| Year | Title / Publications | |
|---|---|---|
| n.d. | Chinese Medicine as Popular Knowledge in Urban China. In L. Barnes & T.J Hinrichs, eds., Chinese Medicine and Healing: An Illustrated History. Harvard University Press. | |
| n.d | Metaphysics at the Bedside. In Concept and Convention: Historical Epistemology of Chinese Medicine. Rochester: Rochester University Press. | |
| n.d. | Sketching the Dao: Chinese Medicine in Modern Cartoons. In V. Lo, ed., Globalising Chinese Medicine: An Illustrated History. E.J. Brill. | |
| 2012 | Ten Thousand Things: Nurturing Life in Contemporary Beijing.(w/ Zhang Qicheng) Zone Press | |
| 2012 | Pulse-Touching: Qualities and the Best Practitioner. In Hugh MacPherson and Volker Scheid, eds., Integrating East Asian Medicine into Contemporary Healthcare: Authenticity, Best Practice and the Evidence Mosaic. Elsevier. Pp. 39-53. (To appear 2013 in EASTS: East Asian Science and Technology Studies journal, revised: Medical Qualisigns: Revisiting pulse diagnosis in Chinese medicine.) | |
| 2011 | Knowing the Why but Not the How’: A Dilemma in Contemporary Chinese Medicine. Asian Medicine 5: 57-79 (co-authored with Jun Wang). | |
| 2010 | The Park Pass: Peopling and Civilizing a New Old Beijing. Public Culture 21(3): 551-576. | |
| 2010 | How to Live: Reading China’s Popular Health Media. In K.K. Liew, ed., Liberalizing, Feminizing, and Popularizing Health Communications in Asia. Ashgate Publishers. | |
| 2007 | Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life.(ed. w/ M. Lock) Durham: Duke University Press. | |
| 2006 | Food, Eating and the Good Life. In C. Tilley, et al., eds., The Sage Handbook of Material Culture. London: Sage, 145-160. | |
| 2005 | Biopolitical Beijing: Pleasure, Sovereignty, and Self-Cultivation in China ‘s Capital. Cultural Anthropology. 20(3):303-327. | |
| 2002 | Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China. Durham: Duke University Press. | |
| 2001 | For Your Reading Pleasure: Popular Health Advice and the Anthropology of Everyday Life in 1990s Beijing. Positions. 9(1): 105-130. | |
| 1999 | Technologies of Everyday Life: The Economy of Impotence in Reform China. Cultural Anthropology. 14(2): 155-179. | |
| 1998 | (Un)fixing Representation In a special issue of Cultural Studies volume 12, no. 1 (winter) (Co-edited with Tomoko Masuzawa and Carol Mavor) | |
| 1998 | Empires of Hygiene In a special Issue of Positions volume 6, no. 3 (winter). (Co-edited with Marta Hanson). This issue was recognized by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (Modern Language Association) with a second place award for Best Special Issue. | |
| 1996 | Market Magic: Getting Rich and Getting Personal in Medicine after Mao. American Ethnologist 23(2): 239-257. | |
| 1996 | ‘Medicine and the Changes Are One’: An Essay on Divination Healing with Commentary. Chinese Science. No. 13: 107-134. | |
| 1995 | Rewriting Chinese Medicine in Post-Mao China. In D. Bates, ed., Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 251-276. | |
| 1994 | Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter in Chinese Medicine. Boulder: Westview Press. | |
| 1994 | Eating Chinese Medicine. Cultural Anthropology. 9(4): 471-497 | |
| 1994 | Multiplicity, Point of View, and Responsibility in Traditional Chinese Medicine. In A. Zito & T. Barlow, eds., Body, Subjectivity and Power in China. University of Chicago Press, 78-99. | |
| 1993 | The Concept of Culture in Post-War American Historiography of China. Positions 1:2, 486-525 | |
| 1992 | Time and Text: Approaching contemporary Chinese medicine through analysis of a case. In Charles Leslie & Allan Young, eds., Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge. Berkeley: University of California Press. | |
| 1992 | China After Mao In a special issue of Dialectical Anthropology (co-edited with Donald Nonini) | |
| 1991 | Objects, Processes, and Female Infertility in Chinese Medicine. Medical Anthropology Quarterly (NS) 5(4): 370-399. | |
| 1987 | Problems of Knowledge in Contemporary Chinese Medical Discourse. Social Science and Medicine. 24 (No.12), pp. 1013 1021. | |
| 1987 | Night of the Living Dead: An American Horror Myth, Semiotica 38, 1/2, pp. 1 15. | |
| 1981 | Kuru: Correspondence and Field Notes from the Collection of D. Carleton Gajdusek. Edited with D. C. Gajdusek. New York: Raven Press |