"Locating Taiwan in Postwar Global Health: Tracing Empires, Connecting Histories, and Decentering the West "
▲Date: 2025.04.01,1-3 pm
▲Venue: R802,8F, Teaching & Research Building, Shuang Ho Campus, TMU
▲Speaker: Dr. Shinyi Hsieh
Postdoc Fellow, Taiwan Social Resilience Research Center
▲Registration ─ Please contact me on GIMH Facebook Messenger.
Abstract
How can historical methods help us understand global health beyond Western-centric narratives?
In this talk, I will introduce my academic journey in both the history of science and medicine as well as DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) and social justice work, amplifying how these perspectives affect my approach to studying Taiwan in postwar global health, with a specific focus on children, women, and animals. Using my study of trachoma in postwar Taiwan as an example, I will show how historians use global and transnational historical methods—emphasizing interconnected rather than merely comparative histories—to trace the bioscientific exchanges of knowledge, samples, and interventions across the Pacific. My work examines the conflicting forces within postwar international health—where decolonial agendas were articulated yet remained entangled in colonial governance, expertise, and interventions. We will explore three major research approaches—social history, postcolonial approaches, and the global history of science—which not only shape my own research but also offer valuable analytical tools for students to critically examine historical health issues and their linkages to present and future global health challenges. Additionally, I will discuss how historians conduct archival research to reconstruct narratives that challenge dominant perspectives. Through this lecture, I invite students to reflect on how historical analysis can deepen their understanding of contemporary global health challenges, research ethics, and historical reckoning.
主題 /戰後台灣與全球衛生
時間 /2025.04.01 (二) 1-3 p.m
地點 /北醫大雙和校區教學研究大樓8F,802會議室
講師 /謝新誼(國立臺灣大學臺灣社會韌性研究中心博士後研究員)