Wayne Soon
@waynesoon.bsky.social
Historian of Medicine, China, Taiwan, and Diaspora at the University of Minnesota. Associate Professor. Currently researching on global health insurance histories in East Asia. https://a.co/d/4tahHXR
Both books reveal how Sichuan and Manchuria were places of deep meanings for their residents: from mountains to gravesites; from rivers to houses. Without wonders (Daston and Park), there cannot be science and technology. Yet beyond wonders, there cannot be order without meanings. 3/
June 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Both books reveal how Sichuan and Manchuria were places of deep meanings for their residents: from mountains to gravesites; from rivers to houses. Without wonders (Daston and Park), there cannot be science and technology. Yet beyond wonders, there cannot be order without meanings. 3/
Key takeaways: history of science and technology in East Asia should consider the broader meanings of geomancy, place, and religious beliefs as actors on the ground ; fengshui brought the state and society closer together in organic ways, despite the calamities that surrounded the Late Qing. 2/
June 3, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Key takeaways: history of science and technology in East Asia should consider the broader meanings of geomancy, place, and religious beliefs as actors on the ground ; fengshui brought the state and society closer together in organic ways, despite the calamities that surrounded the Late Qing. 2/
May 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Mohammad's article highlights the role of the “insurantial imaginary” as a condition that shaped the articulation of the sickly, idle and risky racial minorities within Singapore’s public health discourse on diabetes 6/
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Sickly, Idle and Risky Minorities: Race and Diabetes under Singapore’s Emergent “Insurantial Imaginary”
This article highlights the role of the “insurantial imaginary”, defined as a social context in which profitable, useful and necessary uses can be found for insurance technology, as a condition tha...
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May 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Mohammad's article highlights the role of the “insurantial imaginary” as a condition that shaped the articulation of the sickly, idle and risky racial minorities within Singapore’s public health discourse on diabetes 6/
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Timothy Sim's article in the Bulletin of History of Medicine furthers this theme, but showing how coevolution of state and society further the party, but also public health's aim. Which circles back to Cherian's arguments. 5/
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Project MUSE - The Citizen as a Public Health Actor: Complaints as Public Engagement with <i>Aedes</i> Mosquito Control in Singapore, 1965–1985
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May 1, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Timothy Sim's article in the Bulletin of History of Medicine furthers this theme, but showing how coevolution of state and society further the party, but also public health's aim. Which circles back to Cherian's arguments. 5/
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...