Jaehwan Hyun

book review
November 14, 2024

Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology Annika A. Culver, London and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. 328 pp. $103.50 hardcover, ISBN: 9781350184930.

Forum: Masked Societies in East Asia: A Forum on the Socio-Material History of Face Masks
August 31, 2023

Introduction

In the latest issue’s “Editor’s Note” of EASTS, Wen-hua Kuo made a call to East Asian science studies scholars to commit
Forum: Masked Societies in East Asia: A Forum on the Socio-Material History of Face Masks
August 31, 2023

Some Reflections on the History of Masked Societies in East Asia

The history of face masks has become a very popular topic in light of the COVID-15 pandemic, especially for new
Research Article
November 16, 2021

Asians—a Doping-Friendly Race? Antidoping Research and Popular Discourse on Race in the Postgenomic Era

There has been a growing concern about a new way of thinking about race in genomics. STS scholars have tried to make...
Research Article
November 15, 2021

Racializing Chōsenjin: Science and Biological Speculations in Colonial Korea

Recent literature on the history of medicine in colonial Korea has revealed that Japanese medical scientists studied...