Harry Yi-Jui Wu, MA, MSc, MD, DPhil

Corresponding address:
A5-11 Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit
21 Sassoon Road, William MW Mong Block
LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
Email: hyjw@hku.hk; harry.yj.wu@gmail.com Phone: 39179073

CURRENT POSITION
(Academic position)
Assistant Professor and Director, Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit; Member of Bau Institute of
Medical and Health Sciences Education. Li Ka-Shing Faculty of Medicine. The University of Hong
Kong
(Administrative position)
Executive Board Member, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, The University of Hong Kong
Co-Chair of Medical Ethics, MBBS Curriculum Committee, The University of Hong Kong
Common Core Curriculum Committee Member, The University of Hong Kong
Education and Research Committee Member, Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences

EDUCATION
 2008-2012 University of Oxford, DPhil in History, under supervision of Dr Sloan Mahone and Dr
Karl Gerth.
 2007-2008 University of Oxford, MSc in History of Science, Medicine and Technology.
 2005-2006 University of Essex, Colchester, UK Degree: MA Psychoanalytic Studies.
 1997-2004 Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan Degree: Doctor of Medicine.
 1994-1997 Taichung First High School, Taiwan

PAST CLINICAL EMPLOYMENT AND TEACHING HISTORY

 2014-2015 House Tutor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
 2013-2015 Assistant Professor in Medical Humanities, School of Humanities and Social Sciences/
Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
 2012-2013 Postdoctoral Fellow in Humanitarian Studies, Centre for the Humanities and Medicine,
The University of Hong Kong.
 2012-2013 Co-convener, elective course: Introduction to Global Medicine, Department of
Medicine, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan
 2012 Adjunct lecturer and co-convener, core course: Medicine and Civilization at China
Medical University, Taichung City, Taiwan
 2011- 2012 Doctoral Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
 2010- 2011 Resident Doctor, Department of Psychiatry, Yuli Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan
 2008- Clifford Norton student in the history of science, The Queen’s College, Oxford

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 2004-2005 Resident doctor, Department of Psychiatry, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
 2004 Intern, Department of Adult Psychiatry, Taipei Municipal Psychiatric Hospital
 2003 Intern, Department of Neurology, Addiction Medicine, University of Alabama,
Birmingham, USA; Department of Plastic Surgery, Shin-Kong Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND ORGANIZATIONS

 2018-current Member, American Association of Anthropology
 2011 Member, Australia and New Zealand History of Medicine Association
 2011 Member, Taiwan Science & Technology Studies Association
 2005 Member, Taiwan Medical Association

PUBLICATIONS

MONOGRAPH
Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (under review). Folie a Million: Mental Disorders in the Age of World Citizenship,
Experts and Technology

EDITED VOLUME (& introductory essays)

Wu, Harry Yi-Jui & Pols, Hans (under preparation). History of Psychology, American Association of
Psychology Division 26. (SSCI)
Onaga, Lisa & Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (May 2018). Articulating genba: The particularities of exposure and
its study in Asia. Positions: Asia Critique 26(2) (AHCI)
Wu, Harry Yi-Jui & Wang, Wen-Ji (June 2016). East and Southeast Asian Psy Sciences. East Asian
Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal. 10(2). (ESCI)

JOURNAL ARTICLES
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (review and revision). Ethics of Being Governed: Ambivalent Relationship
between the State and Psychiatry in Cold War Taiwan. Submitted to History of Psychology.
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui & Chen, Julie Y. (2018). Conundrum between internationalization and
interdisciplinarity: reflection on the development of medical humanities in Hong Kong, Taiwan and
China. In MedEdPublish https://doi.org/10.15694/mep.2018.0000184.1
 Beh, Philip SL & Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2018). The Porcelain Autopsy Table and Early Post-Mortem
Examinations in Hong Kong. In Hong Kong Medical Journal. 24(4): 434-35
 Wu, Yi-Cheng & Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2018). Suicide and natural environment: an indigenous view.
The Lancet Planetary Health 2(8):e325-326
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2018) Lomax’s Asylums Affairs on Dr. Tseung Fat-Im’s Bookshelf. In Hong
Kong Medical Journal. 24(3):323-324 (SCIE)
 Onaga, Lisa & Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2018). Articulating genba: The particularities of exposure and its
study in Asia. Positions: Asia Critique 26(2): 197-212 (AHCI)
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui, Lin RT, Wang J, Cheng, Y (2017). Transnational Dynamics Amid Poor

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 Regulations: Taiwan’s Actions and Experiences on Asbestos Ban. In International Journal of
Environmental Research and Public Health. 14(10), 1240.
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2017) Six domains in critical medical humanities. In The Clinical Teacher. 2017,
14:1-5
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2017) Temperature Charts from Bombay. In Hong Kong Medical Journal. 23(5):
545-547 (SCIE)
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2017) The Long Walk Home: Trauma Psychiatry on Film. In The Lancet
Psychiatry. 5(4): 361-362 (SCI)
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui & Wang, Wen-Ji (2016). Making and Mapping Psy Sciences and East and
Southeast Asia. In East Asian Science and Technology Studies: an International Journal. 10(2):
109-120 (ESCI)
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2016). From Racialization to World Citizenship: The Transnationality of Taiwan
and the Early Psychiatric Epidemiological Studies of the World Health Organization. In East Asian
Science and Technology Studies: an International Journal. 10(2): 183-205 (ESCI)
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2016) Moral Careers of “Outmates”: Toward the history of “manufactured
mental disorders” and co-production of psychiatric knowledge in post-socialist China. Medical
History 60(1):87-104 (SSCI)
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2015). World Citizenship and the Emergence of the Social Psychiatry Project of
the World Health Organization, 1948-c.1965. History of Psychiatry 26(2):166-181 (SSCI)
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2013). Correspondence: Deep Reflection is needed on the Murder of Young
Chinese Doctor and China’s Health Seeking Pathway. The Lancet Vol. 381, Issue 9863, p. e2 (SCI)
(http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)60131-2/fulltext)
 Yen, Cheng-Fang and Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (both first authors) (2013). Gambling in Taiwan: Gambling
experience, research and policy. In Addiction 108(3):463-7 (SCI/SSCI)
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2012). Missionary Gaze: the Social Biography and Archiving of David
Landsborough IV’s Photo Albums. In Taiwan Journal of Anthropology 10(2): 1-59 (TSSCI)
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2012). Anti-Malaria Campaigns Beyond the Scope of the State. In Taiwan: A
Radical Quarterly in Social Studies No. 88, pp. 229-247. (TSSCI) (in Chinese)
 Wu, Yi-Jui and Wu, C. T. (2010). ‘Cultiver notre Jardin’: Tsungyi Lin and his Psychiatry.
Newsletter of Psychiatry, Aug. 2010 (Taiwanese Association of Psychiatry) (in Chinese)
 Wu, Yi-Jui (2004). ‘The Medical Ethics Manifested in the Changing Society and System--A
Viewpoint by a Medical Student’ in Formosa Journal of Medical Humanities, 5:1/2
2004.03 pp.149-158 (in Chinese)
 Wu, Y-Jui and Lee, Meng-Chi (2004).‘Teacher and Paragon of Greatness from UAB: Professor
James A. Pittman, Jr.’ in Journal of Medical Education. 2004; 8:227-29 (in Chinese)

BOOK CHAPTERS
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (under preparation). Tropical Stupor: an investigation into patients affected by
earthquake and tropical weather in colonial Taiwan. In Hans Pols & Mark Micale (eds.) Trauma in
History: Asian Perspectives (under contract with Cambridge University Press).
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (forthcoming). From Objectified body to silent teacher: decolonizing cadavers in
the medical education in post-war Taiwan. In Susan Lamb et al. (eds.) History of Medical
Education (under contract with McGill-Queen’s University Press).
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (forthcoming). Psychiatry in Modern China: The Science Multiple. In Howard

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 Chiang (ed.) History of Human Sciences in China (Brill)
 Chen, Julie Y., Wu, Harry-Yi-Jui (2017). Medical Humanities. In Dent. J. et al (eds.) Practical
Guide for Medical Teachers, 5th Edition. (Springer). pp. 222-229.
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui and Cheng, Andrew Tai-An (2017). The Development of Mental Health in
Taiwan, in Minas, Harry (ed.). Mental Health in Asia and the Asian Pacific: Historical and
Comparative Perspectives (New York: Springer) pp. 107-121
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2014). A Charted Epidemic of Trauma: Case Notes at the Psychiatric
Department of the National Taiwan University Hospital, 1946-1953. In the Chiang, H. [ed.]
Psychiatry and Chinese History. (London: Pickering & Chatto) pp.161-182
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2012). World Citizenship and the Classification of Psychiatric Diagnoses: the
History of a World Health Organization’s Early Mental Health Programme. In Chang and Lu (eds)
(2011) Psychiatric Nursing and the Society: An STS Reader (Yang-Ming STS Project) pp. 249-282
(in Chinese)

BOOK REVIEWS
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2018) Angela KC Leung & Izumi Kakayama (eds) Gender, Health and History
in Modern East Asia. In Hong Kong Review of Books. https://hkrbooks.com/2018/09/04/gender-
health-and-history-in-modern-east-asia/
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2017) Andrew Schonebaum (2016) Novel Medicine: Healing, Literature, and
Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China. In Medical History 61(3):468-470
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2014) Stephanie Ho et al. (2012) The Dark Side of Depression, Emotional
Management and Modernity. In East Asian Science and Technology Studies 8(4):495-97
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2014) Sandra Harding (2011): The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies
Reader. In East Asian Science and Technology Studies 8(1):151-53.

SELECTED ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2018) (conference paper) Genba and the Politics of Hazard Exposure. In
Histories and Ecologies of Health. Centre for the Humanities and Medicine, The University of
Hong Kong, 14th of December, 2018.
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2018) (conference paper) Tropical stupor? an Investigation into patients affected
by earthquake and tropical weather in colonial Taiwan. Australian Association for Asian Studies.
1st of July, 2018.
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2018) (invited speech) Negotiating end-of-life care between tradition and
modern healthcare: Coastal Chinese’ perspective. Lancaster University. 14th of Feb, 2018.
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2017) (conference paper) Invisible Victims in the Prosperous Port City:
Hazardous Exposures and the Constraint of Science in Hong Kong. In Medical Humanities, Social
Science and the Environment Conference. Harvard University, 29th of Sep, 2017.
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2017) (invited workshop paper) Common Ground between Geneva and
Developing Country in the WHO’s Social Psychiatry Project. In Historical and ethnographic
perspectives on the emergence of global mental health. EHESS-Universite Paris Descartes, Villa
Finaly, Florence, Italy. 12th - 15th of June, 2017.
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2017) (conference paper) Ethics of Being Un/Governed: Psychiatry as
Accomplice and Resistance With/Against the State post-WWII Taiwan. In North American Taiwan
Studies Association Annual Conference. Stanford University, San Francisco, USA. 25-28 th of May,

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 2017.
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2017) (invited workshop paper) Technology of Longevity, Improper Life and the
Changing Face of End-of-Life Care in Hong Kong and Singapore. In Technologies and Care
Workshop, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. 15-17 th of May, 2017.
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2017) (conference paper) Thanatopolitics in Monsoon Asia and its Implications
on Palliative Care Policy. Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference. 18 th of March, 2017.
Sheraton Hotel, Toronto, Canada.
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2016) (conference paper) Imagining Global Mental Health Research Through
Technology. 8th Conference of Asian Society for the History of Medicine. 1 st of October, 2016.
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2016) (conference paper) Thanatopolitics and the Transformation of End-of-Life
Care on Three Chinese Immigrant Islands. 4S/EASST Annual Conference: Science and
Technology by Other Means. 1st of September. Barcelona, Spain.
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2016) (conference paper) Psychiatry in China: a boundary discipline for the
abject. In Human Sciences in China Final Conference. 12 of July, 2016. Warwick University
Venice. Venice, Italy.
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2016) (conference paper) The Art of Resistance/Complicity: Psychiatrists and
the State in Early Postwar Taiwan. Interrogation: Psy Sciences and the Crafts of Hidden Persuasion
in a Time of Cold War. 1st of July. Birkbeck, University of London. UK
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2016) (conference paper) Thanatopolitics, hygienic crisis and the
transformation of end-of-life care institutions in three Chinese immigrant settlements. “Coping with
transnational crisis: Chinese economic and social lives in East Asian Ports-Cities, 1850-1950”
Conference. June 10-11, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2015) (conference paper) From Contact Zone to Trading Zone: Historicising
Early Psychiatric Surveys in Taiwan/China and the WHO. 21st of August. Mapping Mental Health
in East Asia. National Yang Ming University, Taiwan.
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2015) (conference paper) Origins of manufactured mental disorders (bei-
jingshenbing) in China. 1st of May, American Association for the History of Medicine. Yale
University, USA
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2015) (guest seminar paper) Manufactured mental disorders and the incomplete
medical modernity in post-socialist China, Hong Kong Centre for the Humanities and Social
Sciences, 31st of March, Hong Kong
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2014) (workshop paper) Riding the Whirlwind, Directing a Storm: The WHO’s
Short-lived Mental Health Study Group on Peaceful Use of Atomic Energy. 11th of October,
Exposure and Effect: Measuring Safety, Environment and Life in Asia, Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore.
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2014) (conference paper) A Social History of the International Classification of
Psychiatry. 21st of August, Annual Conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S),
Buenos Aires, Argentina
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2014) (conference paper) World Citizenship and the Common Language of
Psychiatry. 25 of March, History of Medicine in Practice. University of Uppsala, Denmark
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2014) (conference paper) Lingua Franca of Psychiatry. 16 of March, 2014,
Global STS Conference, Nanyang Technological University
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2014) (seminar paper) Analyzing Bei-Jingshenbing Phenomena in China, 25 of
Feb, 2014 at East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore.
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2013) (conference paper) Between Racial Science and World Citizenship: The

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 Transnationality of Taiwan’s Early Psychiatric Epidemiological Studies. 22 of Nov, 2013 in
Psychiatry in East Asia Workshop. Academia Sinica.
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2013) (conference paper) The Moral Economy of Being Mentally-Illed in Post
Socialist China. 25-26 of April, 2013. Making and Breaking of the Humanitarian, Centre for the
Humanities and Medicine. The University of Hong Kong
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2013) (conference paper) Homosexuality and Modern Psychiatry in Taiwan: 40
Years After the Removal of Diagnosis, 1973-2013. 26-27 of March, 2013. British Psychological
Association Conference. University of Surrey
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2012) (conference paper) Charting Trauma: Case Notes at the Psychiatric
Department of the National Taiwan University Hospital, 1946-1953, 13-16 of Dec, 6th Conference
of the Asian Society for the History of Medicine, Keio University, Japan
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2012) (seminar paper) Health Citizenship from Historical Perspectives: The
Case of the World Health Organization, 15th of Nov, 2012 at Research Seminar Series, Department
of History, the University of Hong Kong
 Wu, Harry Yi-Jui (2011). (keynote speech) Rendezvous between Taiwan and World Psychiatry, 4th
of Nov, 2011 at World Psychiatric Association Asian Regional Conference, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
 Wu, Yi-Jui (2011). (conference paper) The Emergence of International Psychiatric Epidemiology:
a New Science in the Post-War Shadow, 14st of July, 2011 at the Australia and New Zealand History
of Medicine Biennial Conference, Brisbane, Australia
 Wu, Yi-Jui (2010). (seminar paper) Taiwan in the World Health Organization, a Historiographical
Reappraisal, 4th of November, 2010 at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London
 Wu, Yi-Jui (2010). (workshop paper) Vicissitudes of Trauma: Three Case Studies in the 20th
Century Taiwan, presented on 23rd of July, 2010 at Max Planck Institute of Human Development,
Berlin, Germany. (peer reviewed)
 Wu, Yi-Jui (2010). (conference paper) Putting Chinese Mind into the World’s Psyche: The
Negotiation of International Psychiatry in the Post-war Period, presented on 26th of June, 2010 at
the 12th International Conference on the History of Chinese Science and Technology, Tsinghua
University, Beijing.

COURSE TAUGHT

 Cultures of Madness, Common Core Course. The University of Hong Kong. 2016 -
 Epistemology and Ethics of Research, PhD core module. (LKC School of Medicine, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore), coordinator.
 Health and Illnesses in the History (School of Humanities and Social Science, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore). 2014-2015
 Agenda, Research Methods and Cases in Anthropological Studies of Mental Health, Cross-Strait
Anthropology Summer School, Sun Yat-Sen University, China, July 2014.
 Workshop on Medical Humanities (LKC School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore). 2013-2014, 2014-2015
 History of Madness (School of Humanities and Social Science, Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore). 2013-2014, 2014-2015
 Science and Technology from Historical Perspectives (School of Humanities and Social Science ,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore). 2013

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 Medicine and Civilization (General Education, China Medical University, Taichung). 2012

CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS ORGANISED

 9th Asian Society for the History of Medicine, June 2018.
 Past, Present and Future of End-of-life Care in Singapore and Hong Kong. University of Glasgow,
Dumfries Campus, 15th of May, 2018.
 Unruly Minds: Mental Health and the Human Sciences in Chinese Contexts. Nanyang
Technological University, 9th of April, 2015
 Exposure and Effect: Measuring Safety, Environment and Life in Asia. Nanyang Technological
University, 11th-12th of October, 2014
 Making and Breaking the Humanitarian. The University of Hong Kong. 25 th-26th of April, 2013
 2nd Oxbridge Taiwanese Scientific Symposium. University of Oxford. 23 rd-24th of May, 2009

EDITORSHIP
 h-Madness (East Asia Section Editor): June 2017- present

INVITED REVIEWER OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

 Social Sciences and Medicine (Elsevier)
 Journal of Women’s and Gender Studies (National Taiwan University)
 The Journal of Mental and Nervous Disease (LWW)
 Medical History (Cambridge University Press)
 Asian Anthropology (Taylor & Francis, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
 Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies (Cultural Studies Association)
 Journal of Mental Health (Taylor & Francis)
 History of Psychology (American Psychological Association)
 Taiwan Journal of Anthropology (Institute of Ethnography, Academia Sinica)
 East Asian Science, Technology and Society
 Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies

LICENSE
 2005 May Licensing Examination to practice medicine, Taiwan

SHORT COURSE & TRAINING CERTIFICATE

 2018 Training in indigenous mental health. Workshop in Montreal, Canada.
 2016 Training in McGill Illness Narrative Interview. Workshop in Montreal, Canada.
 2013 Training in qualitative data analysis programme, NVivo, QSR International. Workshop in
Singapore

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 2013 Training in Advanced Teaching and Learning @ HKU, Centre for the Enhancement of
Teaching and Learning, The University of Hong Kong, HK
 2010 Short course certificate in International Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College
London, UK

AREAS OF INTERESTS
 History of medicine, science and technology in general
 History and politics of international health organizations
 Traumatic psychology, especially with implication with human atrocities and natural disasters
 Medical Humanities in relation to Medical Education
 Medical ethics/ bioethics
 Narrative medicine

ACADEMIC AWARDS, GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS

 2018 Global Partnership Fund, The University of Hong Kong
 2018 Knowledge Exchange Impact Grant, The University of Hong Kong
 2018 Mary Louis Nickerson Award in Neural History, Osler Library, McGill University (CAD
6,000)
 2017 Teaching Development Grant, The University of Hong Kong
 2017 Yu Ying-Shih Prize in Humanities Research, Academia Sinica & Tang Prize Foundation
(NTD 360,000)
 2017 Glasgow/HKU Early Career Mobility Fund (HKD 50,000)
 2015 Enhanced Start-up Research Grant, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, HKU
 2014 CLASS Grant for Workshop Organization, Nanyang Technological University
 2013 Start-up Research Grant, Nanyang Technological University
 2011 Dissertation Fellowship, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
 2010 Chiang Ching Kuo Scholarly Exchange Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
 2009 Wellcome Trust, Research Travel Grant, U.K.
 2009 Ministry of Education Study Abroad Scholarship, MOE, Taiwan
 2008 Clifford Norton Studentship in the History of Science, The Queen’s College, Oxford