For EASTS 17.2, we are excited to present the special issue “War and Medicine during the Long Sino–Japanese Wars (1895–1945)” from guest editors Michael Shiyung Liu, James A. Cook, and Tina P. Johnson. As outlined in their introduction, this special issue includes articles from Nicolas Schillinger, Roberto Padilla, and Dan Shao and essays by Wayne Soon and Pi Kuo-Li that offer important historical scholarship on the topics of war, public health, and military medicine analyzed through an STS lens.
In addition to our special issue contents—although interesting parallels can certainly be drawn—we have a research note titled “COVID-19 Making ‘Idols’: The Birth of Celebrity Scientists in China.” In this, Siyi Chen et al. investigate the case of four Chinese scientists with distinct public personas, all of whom have sparked an unprecedented storm of publicity since the outbreak of COVID-19 in the early months of 2020. The note explores how these celebrity scientists have played a key role in the governance of pandemic risks by guiding the public’s behavior and offering scientific ways to cope with them.
