Notes on Contributors
Harold J. Cook
is the John F. Nickoll Professor of History at Brown University and former Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL. He studies processes of early modern globalization through histories of the Dutch empire and beyond, the implications of commerce for medicine and the new sciences, and the growing power of materialism.
Margaret D. Garber
is an Associate Professor of History of Science at California State University Fullerton. She has authored a number of articles, and chapters in edited volumes, on the history of alchemy, iatrochemistry, and scientific societies in the Holy Roman Empire. Currently, she is completing a monograph on the Academia Naturae Curiosorum (a.k.a. Leopoldina), entitled “Domesticating Curiosities: The Leopoldina’s Literary Transformation of Chemistry and Medicine in the Holy Roman Empire (1650–1750).”
Marta Hanson
is an Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, teaches in the History of Science and Technology Department, and is a member of the East Asian Studies Program. Her research focuses on the history of Chinese science and medicine; the history of epidemics, disease, and public health in China; disease maps in East Asia; Chinese arts of memory; the healer’s body in Chinese medicine; and late imperial Chinese cultural and social history.
Gianna Pomata
is Professor Emerita at the Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, which she joined in 2007. She also taught at the University of Bologna and Minnesota. She has written on the cultural history of medicine in early modern Europe, and particularly on doctor–patient relationships, the history of the body, individualized medicine, and the case history as an epistemic genre. She is currently writing a book on the long-term history of the medical case narrative, which includes a comparison of the genre’s development in Europe and China.
Beatriz Puente-Ballesteros
joined the Department of History at the University of Macau as an Assistant Professor in 2015 after post-doctoral fellowships in Leuven and Constance. She investigates court medicine in late imperial China, medical interactions between Manchu, Chinese, and European, and translations of Western materia medica and anatomical texts to Ming and Qing China. She is now working in parallel on two book manuscripts, one on the history of chocolate in China from a global microhistorical perspective and the other a prosopographical study of the unsung lives of Western doctors in the service of Manchu rule.
Wei Yu Wayne Tan
is an Assistant Professor of history at Hope College since 2016, where he teaches courses on world history. He is currently revising a book manuscript about the social and cultural history of blindness in early modern Japan to provide comparative historical perspectives on disability.
Motoichi Terada
is Professor Emeritus of Nagoya City University, where he taught in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences. His research interests explore the history of thought in Europe with special attention to France, one of his chief foci being the history of vitalism and animal economy at the medical school of Montpellier, its relationships to materialism, and its effects on the French Enlightenment, as in a recent annotated edition of Denis Diderot’s Éléments de physiologie (Paris: Éditions Matériologiques, 2019).
Daniel Trambaiolo
is an Assistant Professor and program director in Japanese Studies at The University of Hong Kong. He writes on the history of medicine in Tokugawa Japan, focusing on the social dynamics involved in the creation and circulation of medical knowledge. He is revising a book manuscript on this subject, titled Ancient Texts and New Cures: Transformations of Medical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan.