Masks: UK. Breathe In, Breathe Out
Masks: UK. Breathe In, Breathe Out
It is too much to expect that under our British Bulldog leader Boris Johnson the United Kingdom would submit to learning anything from nations in East Asia. …
When to Wear What Masks: Exploring Masks During Four Months of Social Distancing Imposed by COVID-19
When to Wear What Masks: Exploring Masks During Four Months of Social Distancing Imposed by COVID-19
When COVID-19 attacked Hong Kong in late January 2020, most of us were caught off guard. …
Menstrual Pads, Its History, and Its Cultural Meaning
Menstrual Pads, Its History, and Its Cultural Meaning
Disposable menstrual pads became the mainstream in China in just 30 years, but some are struggling to get them in the country. …
A Tale of Two Covers — How the Manchurian Plague of 1910 – 11 Contributed to the Global History of Medical Equipment
A Tale of Two Covers — How the Manchurian Plague of 1910 – 11 Contributed to the Global History of Medical Equipment
Masks have never been more symbolic and integral to global public health. In 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent full-fledged pandemic caused demands for masks (especially N95 and surgical masks) across the world to rise to unprecedented levels. …
Covid Testing and Mask Wearing: Rebuilding Everyday Life — China’s Routinized Epidemic Prevention and Control
Covid Testing and Mask Wearing: Rebuilding Everyday Life — China’s Routinized Epidemic Prevention and Control
Everyday life in China’s post-epidemic era is restructured through routinized epidemic control. …
Life and Times of Ephedra — The Quest for a Scientific Use of an Ancient Remedy and TCM’s Long road to modernization
Life and Times of Ephedra — The Quest for a Scientific Use of an Ancient Remedy and TCM’s Long road to modernization
In June 1935, a famous medical journal in Shanghai, Yijie Chunqiu (醫界春秋, “Annals of medicine”) published a short essay called “Mahuang zhuan” (麻黃傳, “A biography of ephedra”). …
Shuanghuanglian Oral Liquid: TCM Pharmacotherapy in the Time of Coronavirus
Shuanghuanglian Oral Liquid: TCM Pharmacotherapy in the Time of Coronavirus
On the evening of January 31, 2020 — the seventh day of the lunar new year — news broke and spread rapidly on the Chinese social media platform WeChat regarding a certain shuanghuanlian koufuye (双黄连口服液, hereafter SHL oral liquid) showing efficacy in inhibiting the “novel coronavirus pneumonia” (xinguan feiyan 新冠肺炎), which had come out of Wuhan and was wreaking havoc. …
Health QR Code: Technological and/or Social Infrastructure about Pandemic Control and Privacy
Health QR Code: Technological and/or Social Infrastructure about Pandemic Control and Privacy
How can we balance the benefits and risks of such big-scale surveillance systems? This is a tricky problem. …
Stand-to-pee Toilet: Practical Competency and Gendered Bodily Norms
Stand-to-pee Toilet: Practical Competency and Gendered Bodily Norms
Stand-to-pee (STP) devices allow females to urinate while standing upright. …