Professur für Neuere Geschichte | Dr. Yijie Huang

Postdoctoral Researcher 
ERC-Project "FEVER – Global Histories of (a) Disease, 1750-1840"

Yijie Huang is a historian of medicine and science in early modern Europe and East Asia. Postdoctoral researcher of the FEVER project, she is exploring the perceptions of fever mediated between medical cultures in eighteenth-century Europe and China. At the same time, she is also working on a book based on her PhD thesis, a study of knowledge and practice of the pulse in early modern English medicine. Before joining Heidelberg, she was a Jing Brand Scholar in the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge. She received her PhD and MPhil in history and philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge.

Research Interests

Early modern medicine and natural philosophy; early medical exchange between the East and the West; history of the senses, particularly touch; history of the body

Publications 

Peer-reviewed article 

“Anatomising the Pulse: Edmund King’s Analogy, Observation and Conception of the Tubular Body”, Annals of Science 79, Issue 3 (2022): 292-319. * Awardee of the 2021 Trevor Levere Best Paper Prize. 

Book chapter 

“Taking the Pulse between Early Modern China and Europe: The Drifting Touch”, in The Routledge History of the Senses, ed. By Andrew Kettler and William Tullett (forthcoming). 

Book review 

“Translating Medicine across Premodern Worlds, edited by Tara Alberts, Sietske Fransen, and Elaine Leong, Osiris 37, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022, 312 pp. ISBN 9780226821566. $35.00”, Journal of Early Modern History 27, Issue 5 (2023): 469-72. 

“Erin Webster. The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth-Century England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 224. $80.00 (cloth)”, Journal of British Studies 60, No. 3 (2021): 732-33.

Contact:

Historisches Seminar
Hauptstraße 113
Raum 207
D-69117 Heidelberg

E-Mail: yijie.huang@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de