Research Postgraduate - Centre for the Humanities and Medicine
Research Postgraduate - Centre for the Humanities and Medicine
Centre for the Humanities and Medicine
http://www.chm.hku.hk
Major Research Areas
History of Medicine and Health:
Colonial medicine and public health; comparative East-West histories; disease and disease control; biopolitics and the modern state; children and youth health; laboratory science; biomedicine in the twentieth-century; international public health; global health.
Medical Humanities:
Philosophy of medicine; literature and medicine; cultural representations of disease; narrative and medicine; medicine and visual cultures.
Communication and Media:
Medicine, public health and the media; health communication; communication and new technologies, including telegenic counselling.
Humanitarian Studies:
Media and humanitarian crises; military action and humanitarian aid; trauma; natural disasters and conflict zones; security and humanitarianism; comparative histories of humanitarianism; social entrepreneurship for health.
Postgraduate Admissions Advisor
Dr R.S. Peckham
Tel: 3917 7048
Fax: 2858 9755
Email: rpeckham@hku.hk