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DESCRIPTION:East Asia Program Lecture Series presents “Invisible Anatomy:
  Meridians and Math in Chinese Medicine"\n\nSpeaker: Lan Li\, Assistant Pr
 ofessor of The History of Medicine\, Johns Hopkins University\n\nDescripti
 on:\n\nThis talk is based on Body Maps: Improvising Meridians and Nerves i
 n Global Chinese Medicine\, which reframes generic anatomical images by co
 nsidering illustrations of invisible structures as maps. Body Maps offers 
 a long global history of medicine through hand-drawn body maps and spans a
 cross the tenth to the twentieth centuries to re-think cultures of objecti
 vity beyond normative geographies of science and medicine. In this talk\, 
 I focus on the graphic form of a tu 圖 as a historical category of techni
 cal images to understand how illustrations of lines guided diagnostic and 
 therapeutic practice. Scholars often debated whether to discursively inter
 pret these lines as meridians\, channels\, or tracts\; practitioners often
  debated whether these lines merely visualized nerves to articulate needli
 ng and heating practices. Specifically\, this talk offers a critical exami
 nation of a thirteenth-century image of jingluo 經絡\, or meridians\, an
 d considers it within the epistemological frameworks of global East Asian 
 medicine. Drawing on analytical approaches from science studies\, visual c
 ulture\, and medical humanities\, it traces the aesthetic\, conceptual\, a
 nd political dimensions of these anatomical images across premodern\, mode
 rn\, and contemporary periods.\n\nSpeaker's Bio: Lan A. Li is an Assistant
  Professor in the Department of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins U
 niversity. Li is a historian of the body and media producer\, contributing
  to podcasts and exhibitions related to acupuncture\, Buddhist medicine\, 
 and metaphors in science and medicine. Li’s first book\, Body Maps: Impr
 ovising Meridians and Nerves in Global Chinese Medicine (JHU Press\, 2025)
  considers the long history of graphically representing invisible anatomy.
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LOCATION:Uris Hall\, G-08
SUMMARY:Invisible Anatomy: Meridians and Math in Chinese Medicine
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/invisible-anatomy-meridians-
 and-math-in-chinese-medicine
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