International Health Humanities Network Membership

Harry Yi-Jui Wu, MA, MSc, MD, DPhil, is Assistant Professor in Medical Humanities jointly appointed by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. He received his medical degree in Taiwan in 2004. Before pursuing his career in humanities, he briefly worked at Mackay Memorial Hospital in Taipei as a resident doctor in psychiatry. From 2005 to 2012, he went on studying psychoanalysis at the University of Essex and the University of Oxford, where he was Clifford Norton Student (Fellow) in the history of science at The Queen’s College. Before joining Nanyang Technological University, he was doctoral fellow at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan and postdoctoral fellow in humanitarian studies at The University of Hong Kong.

Dr. Wu leads medical humanities workshops at LKC School of Medicine. Apart from teaching, Dr. Wu’s research work deals with the humanitarian intervention of psychiatric sciences regarding the aftermaths of the Second World War and the anxiety surrounding the indeterminable time of postwar worldwide rehabilitation. Apart from preparing his first monograph on the social history of international classification of psychiatric diagnoses, he is now conducting a project on issues of ‘manufactured mental disorders’ in historical and contemporary China.