Harry Yi-Jui Wu
Biographic Data
| ID | 8465844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harry Yi-Jui Wu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harry Yi-Jui |
| FAMILY NAME | Wu |
| SIGNATURE | WU H Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Struggles That Led to the Unwise Demise of the Public Health Laboratory Service, 1979–2003, in the Context of Changing Economic Policy
The Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) was an integral part of England’s post-war communicable disease control. Its central reference and surveillance facilities and network of laboratories in NHS hospitals was an international exemplar. Under neoliberal economic policy from the 1980s it faced intense scrutiny and expenditure constraints. Attempts to transfer its peripheral laboratories to the NHS were successfully opposed by arguing that pu…
From Sick Bed to Death Bed? Patient Composition and Mortality in the Amsterdam Binnengasthuis, 1856–1896
Hospitals played a central role in the nineteenth century, as these institutions were the so-called gateways to death or places of healing. Who was admitted and if there is inequality in who died is, however, often understudied. Our study examines the development and mortality risks of the patient population in the Binnengasthuis in Amsterdam over time by analysing detailed patient records of people admitted to the hospital in the period 1856-189…
Using Expertise to Improve through a Medieval Dutch Miscellany
Based on the representative example of a miscellany (ca. 1500) of assorted advice texts from the Dutch town of Deventer, at present British Library Sloane 345, this case study argues that many late medieval urbanites strove to become masters of ‘the good life’, which functioned as part of a habitus of ‘betterment’. Scrutinising the many surviving informatory repositories like this one reveals signs not only of a developing domesticity and an incr…
Madness in the Family
Defending Lives among Concrete Walls
The Future of Taiwan Studies in the Post-covid World’
The covid -19 pandemic has significantly disrupted research communities and agendas worldwide, including Taiwan studies. Consequently, the largest conferences for Taiwan studies in both North America and Europe were cancelled in 2020. In response, the North American Taiwan Studies Association, the European Association of Taiwan Studies, the Japan Association for Taiwan Studies, and the International Journal of Taiwan Studies jointly organised a s…
A Radiologist’s Self-Dissection and Therapy
In this interview, the physician artist, Tayu Wu, reflects on his career trajectory and the story behind the painting selected as the journal cover. He reveals how his continuing interest in visual studies has an impact on his practice as a radiologist. He also explains the motivation behind the painting series, Bable 101, regarding the relationship between art creation and therapy. Lastly, through his own interdisciplinary practice, Wu describes…
Dialogue across Borders
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal - Volume 14, Number 4, December 2020
Articulating Genba
The issue of “the particulate” as an abstraction and as matter plays a crucial role in the histories of development and industrialization in Asia. The particulate functions as an important grain of irritation in our efforts to identify analytically salient commonalities among distinct cases of pollution from radiation, chemical solvents, and insoluble copper. We bring to the fore an analysis of the particulate in this introduction to several arti…
Transnational Dynamics Amid Poor Regulations
This article describes the history of the asbestos use regulation process in Taiwan and the associated factors leading to its total ban in 2018. Despite the long history of asbestos mining and manufacturing since the Japanese colonial period, attempts to understand the impact of asbestos on the health of the population and to control its use did not emerge until the early 1980s. We attempted to investigate the driving forces and obstructions invo…
World citizenship and the emergence of the social psychiatry project of the World Health Organization, 1948–c.1965
This paper examines the relationship between ‘world citizenship’ and the new psychiatric research paradigm established by the World Health Organization in the early post-World War II period. Endorsing the humanitarian ideological concept of ‘world citizenship’, health professionals called for global rehabilitation initiatives to address the devastation after the war. The charm of world citizenship had not only provided theoretical grounds of inte…
Articulating Genba
The issue of “the particulate” as an abstraction and as matter plays a crucial role in the histories of development and industrialization in Asia. The particulate functions as an important grain of irritation in our efforts to identify analytically salient commonalities among distinct cases of pollution from radiation, chemical solvents, and insoluble copper. We bring to the fore an analysis of the particulate in this introduction to several arti…
World citizenship and the emergence of the social psychiatry project of the World Health Organization, 1948–c.1965
This paper examines the relationship between ‘world citizenship’ and the new psychiatric research paradigm established by the World Health Organization in the early post-World War II period. Endorsing the humanitarian ideological concept of ‘world citizenship’, health professionals called for global rehabilitation initiatives to address the devastation after the war. The charm of world citizenship had not only provided theoretical grounds of inte…
Transnational Dynamics Amid Poor Regulations
This article describes the history of the asbestos use regulation process in Taiwan and the associated factors leading to its total ban in 2018. Despite the long history of asbestos mining and manufacturing since the Japanese colonial period, attempts to understand the impact of asbestos on the health of the population and to control its use did not emerge until the early 1980s. We attempted to investigate the driving forces and obstructions invo…
Articulating Genba
The issue of “the particulate” as an abstraction and as matter plays a crucial role in the histories of development and industrialization in Asia. The particulate functions as an important grain of irritation in our efforts to identify analytically salient commonalities among distinct cases of pollution from radiation, chemical solvents, and insoluble copper. We bring to the fore an analysis of the particulate in this introduction to several arti…
Dialogue across Borders
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal - Volume 14, Number 4, December 2020
A Radiologist’s Self-Dissection and Therapy
In this interview, the physician artist, Tayu Wu, reflects on his career trajectory and the story behind the painting selected as the journal cover. He reveals how his continuing interest in visual studies has an impact on his practice as a radiologist. He also explains the motivation behind the painting series, Bable 101, regarding the relationship between art creation and therapy. Lastly, through his own interdisciplinary practice, Wu describes…
Defending Lives among Concrete Walls
The Future of Taiwan Studies in the Post-covid World’
The covid -19 pandemic has significantly disrupted research communities and agendas worldwide, including Taiwan studies. Consequently, the largest conferences for Taiwan studies in both North America and Europe were cancelled in 2020. In response, the North American Taiwan Studies Association, the European Association of Taiwan Studies, the Japan Association for Taiwan Studies, and the International Journal of Taiwan Studies jointly organised a s…
Madness in the Family
The Struggles That Led to the Unwise Demise of the Public Health Laboratory Service, 1979–2003, in the Context of Changing Economic Policy
The Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) was an integral part of England’s post-war communicable disease control. Its central reference and surveillance facilities and network of laboratories in NHS hospitals was an international exemplar. Under neoliberal economic policy from the 1980s it faced intense scrutiny and expenditure constraints. Attempts to transfer its peripheral laboratories to the NHS were successfully opposed by arguing that pu…
From Sick Bed to Death Bed? Patient Composition and Mortality in the Amsterdam Binnengasthuis, 1856–1896
Hospitals played a central role in the nineteenth century, as these institutions were the so-called gateways to death or places of healing. Who was admitted and if there is inequality in who died is, however, often understudied. Our study examines the development and mortality risks of the patient population in the Binnengasthuis in Amsterdam over time by analysing detailed patient records of people admitted to the hospital in the period 1856-189…
Using Expertise to Improve through a Medieval Dutch Miscellany
Based on the representative example of a miscellany (ca. 1500) of assorted advice texts from the Dutch town of Deventer, at present British Library Sloane 345, this case study argues that many late medieval urbanites strove to become masters of ‘the good life’, which functioned as part of a habitus of ‘betterment’. Scrutinising the many surviving informatory repositories like this one reveals signs not only of a developing domesticity and an incr…
Medicine (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works)