Judith Farquhar is Max Palevsky Professor Emerita in the Anthropology Department of the University of Chicago. She has been studying medicine and embodiment, knowledge and writing in China for a long time. Her most recent book, co-authored with Lili Lai of Peking University, is Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China’s Mountain South (March 2021). She has also recently published a short work on the vitalities of traditional Chinese medicine, A Way of Life: Things, thought, and action in Chinese medicine.
See also:
Judith Farquhar, A Way of Life: Things, Thought, and Action in Chinese Medicine (Yale University Press, 2020)
Judith Farquhar and Larisa Jasarevic, Bee-Coming Unfolded (2018)
Sue Cochrane, Vincent Duclos, Judith Farquhar, Volker Scheid, and Clare Twomey, “Translating Vitalities” (a series of essays), Somatosphere, March 2016.
Translating Vitalities 