Medical Anthropology by Dr. Ann-Hui Ching

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Dr. Ching Ann-Hui graduated from NUS Medicine in 2022 and studied Medical Anthropology at the University of Oxford supported by a Rhodes Scholarship. Her thesis studied the creation, scaling of and translation of a culture of care through the ethnography of Maggie's Centre, a nonprofit that provides psychosocial support for people with cancer, in London and Hong Kong. While in medical school, she wrote an award-winning auto-ethnography on the uses of race/ethnicity categories in medical education. In the future, she hopes to be a clinician-policymaker working for health inequity who also writes for the public.

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Essay 1: Ethnobotany TCM
Essay 2: Objective Knowledge
Essay 3: Medicalisation
Essay 4: Desire AntiImperialism