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Previous articleNext article FreeNotes on ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreTara Alberts is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of York. Her research examines encounters and exchanges between Europe and Asia between ca.1500 and ca.1700. She is the author of Conflict and Conversion: Catholicism in Southeast Asia, 1500–1700 (Oxford University Press, 2013), and the co-editor (with D. R. M. Irving) of Intercultural Exchange in Southeast Asia: History and Society in the Early Modern World (I. B. Tauris, 2013). Her current projects examine circulations and translations of materials, ideas, and practices relating to health around Southeast Asia, and the intersection of the spiritual and material in beliefs about healing in the early modern world.Benjamin Breen is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade (Pennsylvania, 2019), which won the American Association for the History of Medicine’s William H. Welch Medal in 2021.Montserrat Cabré is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Cantabria, Spain. Her research interests include medieval women’s healthcare practices, medical and natural philosophical conceptions of the gendered body, and the history of women’s knowledge; she has published widely on these topics in several languages. Currently, she is working on a team project on the hermeneutics of the visible body in late medieval Latin medicine, as well as on a monograph on the cultural history of women’s healing practices in the Crown of Aragon between 1300 and 1500.Sietske Fransen is Max Planck Research Group Leader of the group “Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions” at the Bibliotheca Hertziana–Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome. She has co-edited (with Niall Hodson and Karl A. E. Enenkel) Translating Science in Early Modern Europe (Brill, 2017), and she is co-editor (with Katherine M. Reinhart) of “The Practice of Copying in Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe,” special issue, Word & Image 35, no. 3 (2019). Her primary research interests are in visual and verbal communication of early modern scientific and medical practices.Pablo F. Gómez is Associate Professor in the Department of Medical History and Bioethics, and the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His first book, The Experiential Caribbean, won the 2019 William H. Welch Medal and the 2018 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize. He is interested in histories of knowledge making, and health and corporeality in the early modern world, with a particular focus on the histories of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the African diaspora. His latest book, The Gray Zones of Medicine (an edited volume), explores the history of health practices in Latin America from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century through the biographies of unlicensed healers. Gómez is currently working on a history of the quantifiable body, and medical arithmetics, emerging in the world of slave trading in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds. He is also collaborating on several projects largely related to global histories of science and medicine and histories of enslavement, health, and bodies in the Caribbean Latin America.Shireen Hamza is a historian of science and medicine in the medieval Islamic world. Her dissertation is about the ways transregional medicine (ṭibb) was made local by Muslims across the Indian Ocean world. She has also published research on the history of sexuality and the body. She is a doctoral candidate in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University with a field in Critical Media Practice, and a managing editor of the Ottoman History Podcast.Hansun Hsiung is Assistant Professor in Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University. He works at the intersection of the global history of science and media history in the nineteenth century. His book manuscript, Learn Anything!: Cheap Print and the Diffusion of Western Knowledge, traces networks of reprinting and translation across South, Southeast, and East Asia that formed the groundwork for “Western knowledge” in Japan. His publications have appeared in Isis, Contemporary Japan, PMLA, and the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies.Elaine Leong is Lecturer in History at University College London specializing in histories of everyday science, medicine, and technologies in early modern Britain. Her first book, Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England (Chicago, 2018), won the 2019 Margaret W. Rossiter Prize. She has co-edited a number of volumes of essays and journal special issues, including (with Alisha Rankin) Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500–1800 (Ashgate, 2011), (with Carla Bittel and Christine von Oertzen) Working with Paper: Gendered Practices and the History of Knowledge (Pittsburgh, 2019), and (with Claudia Stein) The Cultural History of Medicine in the Renaissance (Bloomsbury, 2021).Projit Bihari Mukharji is Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the history of science and medicine in modern South Asia. Mukharji is the author of three monographs: Nationalizing the Body: The Medical Market, Print and Daktari Medicine (London, 2009), Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences (Chicago, 2016), and, most recently, Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920–66 (Chicago, 2022).Ahmed Ragab is a historian, physician, and documentary filmmaker. He is Associate Professor of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and the founding director of the independent Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies. Ragab’s research focuses on the history of medicine in the premodern Middle East and the Islamic world as well as on colonial and postcolonial medicine, science, and technology. He also studies and publishes on gender and sexuality in the medieval and early modern Middle East; postcolonial studies of medicine, science, and religion; and other questions in the history of medicine, science, and religion. He is the author of The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion, and Charity (Cambridge, 2015), Piety and Patienthood in Medieval Islam (Routledge, 2018), and Medicine and Religion in the Life of an Ottoman Sheikh (Routledge, 2019).Alisha Rankin is Associate Professor of History at Tufts University and co-editor of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Her first book, Panaceia's Daughters: Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany (Chicago, 2013), won the 2014 Gerald Strauss Prize for Reformation History. She co-edited (with Elaine Leong) a collection of essays titled Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500–1800 (Ashgate, 2011). Her most recent book, The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science (Chicago, 2021), examines poison antidotes, medical testing, and ideas of proof. She has published widely on a variety of topics in the history of science and medicine, and she is working on a new project on witchcraft, magic, and medicine.Daniel Trambaiolo is Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Hong Kong. He has published articles and book chapters on the history of vaccination, ways of conceptualizing epidemics, and other aspects of early modern Japanese medical history. He is currently working on a book manuscript titled Ancient Texts and New Cures: Transformations of Medical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan.Dror Weil is Assistant Professor of History at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. His teaching and research interests focus on scientific and other textual exchanges between the Islamicate world and China during the late medieval and early modern periods. He has published articles on China's participation in the early modern Islamicate book culture, the fourteenth-century transformation in China's reception of Arabo-Persian astronomy, the role of Chinese-Muslims as agents of scientific knowledge, and the study of Arabic and Persian texts in late imperial China. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Osiris Volume 372022Translating Medicine across Premodern Worlds Published for the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/719231 Views: 147 © 2022 History of Science Society. 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