Marta Hanson: The Body-as-Technology in Classical Chinese Medicine

In this lecture, Hanson will explain how early modern Chinese healers maximized the instrumentalization of their bodies as a diagnostic and measuring instrument as well as a time-keeping, mnemonic, and calculating device. She will also illuminate how healers used their body-as-technology in classical Chinese medicine and how these findings reveal the range of knowledge about Heaven and Earth some early modern healers used their bodies and hands to master.