Asst Prof Michael Stanley-Baker

About

An historian of Chinese medicine with clinical TCM qualifications, Assoc. Professor Stanley-Baker’s interests lie in medicine as lived culture how medical knowledge shapes what it means to be human, and the human experience of clinical practice.He brings both textual scholarship and clinical experience to his work, and has received international awards for scholarship, digital humanities and teaching.  Historical archives, new digital tools, bioethics and ethnographic interview all form part of his multi-disciplinary approach to the complex field of Asian medicines.Study of patient-doctor interactions and the existential questions that are broached in seemingly simple encounters form an integral part of his approach to medicine as lived culture.

Session

Topic: Making Sense Of Becoming A Doctor – A Role For Poetry
Date: 18 October, Saturday | Time: 10:30 - 12:00 | Venue: Academia Room L1-S1