Michele Thompson
PROFESSOR OF HISTORY
Office: EN C219D
Phone: 203-392-5614
email: thompsonm1@southernct.edu
EDUCATION
PhD, University of Washington
MA, University of Washington
BA, University of Alabama
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Article, "The Nguyen Initiative to Acquire Vaccinia, 1820-21" in Acta: First International Conference of History of Medicine in Southeast Asia Harold J. Cook and Laurence Monnais eds. Clio Medica The Wellcome Series in teh History of Medicine (Amsterdam: Rodopi, forthcoming).
Article, "Jean Marie Despiau: Much Maligned Physician in the Service of the Nguyen Dynasty" in Wynn Wilcox ed. Vietnam and the West: New Approaches. (Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Publications, 2010).
Article, "Sinification as Limitation: Minh Mang's prohibition on use of Nom and the resulting marginalization of Nom medical texts," in Florence Bretelle ed. Looking at it from Asia: The processes that shaped the sources of History of Science. Vo. 265 of Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science (Boston: Springer, 2010).
Article, "Scripts and Medical Scripture in Vietnam: Nom and Classical Chinese in the Historic Transmission of Medical Knowledge in Pre-Twentieth Century Vietnam," in Trinh Khac Manh et al. Nghien Cuu Chu Nom (Research on Nom Script) Ha Noi: Nha Xuat Ban Khoa Hoc Xa Hoi 2006 [First published electronically, "Scripts and Medical Scripture in Vietnam: Nom and Classical Chinese in the Historic Transmission of Medical Knowledge in Pre-Twentieth Century Vietnam," Thoi Dai Moi no. 5 (July 2005) http://www.thoidai.org]
Article, "Western Science in Indochina, 1800-1998" in Ronald Numbers ed. The Cambridge History of Science Vol. 8 Modern Science in National and International Context (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
Article, "Tue Tinh Vietnamese Monk-Physician at the Ming Court" in Linda L. Barnes and TJ Hinrichs eds. The Illustrated History of Chinese Medicine and Healing. (Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2011)
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TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
SE Asia, History of Science, Medicine and Technology, Comparative Colonialisms
COURSES
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