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（Last updated : 2025-10-01 17:04:53）

QU Honglin

Department / Course Ritsumeikan University Graduate School Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences Major in Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences

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Books and theses
Papers		In Search of a Lost Prescription (Book Review: Xiang Jingjing, Medicine and Confucianism: Medical Exchanges in Early Modern East Asia, Jinbun Shoin, 2023) Studium historiae medicae (Sole-authored) 2025/03/31
Papers		The Discourse of Baidoku (Syphilis) in Traditional Chinese Medicine Studium historiae medicae (Sole-authored) 2025/03/31

Academic conference attendance and presentation
2025/09/11	A Legal History of Taiwan’s Genetic Health Act
2025/08/01	Textualized <Life>: The Clinical Self as Narrative
2025/04/19	The Formation and Transformation of Modern Obstetrics and Gynecology in Japan: Focusing on Masamichi Kawasoe’s Medical Practice in Colonial Taiwan
2025/02/26	The Birth of the Obstetric and Gynecological Clinic in Modern East Asia (The Glocal History of Japan and Korea - Workshop for Graduate Students of Kyung Hee and Ritsumeikan University)
2024/12/07	Discourse and Representation in The Secret Record of Syphilitic Ulcers: Disease and Social Symbolism from the Perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine (2024 Kyoto–Seoul East Asia Next-Generation Forum in Kyoto)
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Research activities
	Japanese Society for Science and Technology Studies
	The History of Science Society of Japan
	Japanese Society for the History of Medicine
	Collegium Ad Studium Historiae Medicae
	The Medical Sociology Research Seminar
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Present specialized field
Sociology of science, history of science and technology, Library and information science, humanistic and social informatics, Gender studies keyword(History of Medicine, Science and Technology Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Clinical Philosophy, and Medical Sociology)

researchmap Researcher code
R000091045

Graduate Students' Project and Research Society
SOGI Research Society
Theory of Life Society The term "life" is no longer a mere referent for biological phenomena. It is a concept that forms the core of the institutional arrangement of knowledge in the modern era, continuously transforming as it traverses the domains of governance, ethics, economics, and aesthetics. In contemporary society, the word "life" functions as a keyword that penetrates all fields. In areas such as reproductive medicine, genetic engineering, end-of-life care, the climate crisis, infectious disease management, and even AI, life has transformed from a natural fact into an object that is institutionally defined, politically managed, and ethically constructed. In particular, this research group will focus on the following three pillars: A re-examination of the philosophical genealogy of theories of life: To survey the development of theories of life in modern thought, as represented by figures such as Bergson, Canguilhem, Foucault, Deleuze, and Morin. An examination of the specificity of the view of life in modern and contemporary Japanese thought: To analyze the transformation of the view of life in modern Japan and its institutional and cultural conditions, taking cues from the work of Hisayuki Omodaka and others. A comprehensive and historical examination of interventions into life: To analyze the historical transitions in the practical definition and manipulation of life in fields such as medicine, education, welfare, and the judiciary.