Michael Stanley-Baker specializes in the history of Chinese medicine and religion, particularly Daoism. He received his PhD from University College London, and has worked and studied at Indiana University, Bloomington; Academia Sinica, Taipei; and the Needham Institute, Cambridge. He has done fieldwork with healers in Taiwan and China, and also has a clinical degree in Chinese medicine from Ruseto College, Boulder CO. He currently serves as treasurer on the council of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicines, and as an associate of the UCL China Centre for Health and Humanities.
Projects
Selected Publications
Stanley-Baker, Michael (2023). “Introduction.” In Situating Religion and Medicine in Asia: Methodological Insights and Innovations, ed. M. Stanley-Baker, 1–57. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
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Stanley-Baker, Michael, ed. (2023). Situating Religion and Medicine in Asia: Methodological Insights and Innovations. Social Histories of Medicine. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
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Stanley-Baker, Michael, Christopher Khoo, Jinju Chen, Shih-Pei Chen, Michael Goodman, William Chong, Qiao Rou Shaun Ang, and Yuchen Feng (2023). “Polyglot Medicine: Knowledge Graph [Drug Name Synonymy].” Polyglot Asian Medicines [Database], 2023…
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Kadetz, Paul and Michael Stanley-Baker (2022). “About Face: How the People’s Republic of China Harnessed Health to Leverage Soft Power on the World Stage.” Frontiers in Human Dynamics 3: 1–12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2021.774765.
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Past Events
Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch
Polyglot Asian Medicine: Foundational Resources and Digital Tools
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Sacred Cures: Situating Medicine and Religion in Asia
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Unusual Lives: Historicizing Life as a Problem of Knowledge
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Studies of Knowledge in Eurasia and Africa: Issues of Methodology and Future Perspectives
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跟踪物質實踐: 搜索情境化的亞洲醫藥知識與中國中古宗教文獻為例
7th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities 2016
Wellcome Library History of Premodern Medicine Seminar
American Association of Asian Studies, Toronto