Chia-Feng Chang, from National Taiwan University, will serve as a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence and the Lund-Gill Chair at Dominican University for the 2010-11 academic year. An expert in the history and philosophy of Chinese science and medicine, Chang will offer two public lectures about these topics during the academic year.
On Tuesday, September 21, Chang will present a lecture titled "Chinese Medicine Speaks to the West: Body Matters" during which she will examine how Chinese medicine differs from Western medicine. The lecture will be held at 7:00 p.m. in the Martin Recital Hall, 7900 W. Division St.
She will give another lecture in February on ethical issues in Chinese medicine. During her residency, Chang will also teach two courses, one on the history and philosophy of Chinese science and medicine and another on the cultural history of traditional Chinese medicine.
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Chang received her doctorate from the department of history at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, U.K. She has been a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge, U.K., and at the University of Chicago's Morris Fishbein Center for History of Science and Medicine & The Center for East Asian Studies.
For more information, contact Ann Charney Colmo, professor of political science, at (708) 524-6948 or charneca@dom.edu.
