Dr. Bridie J. Andrews

Bridie Andrews
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Bridie Andrews is an assistant professor of the history of science at Harvard University. A graduate of the University of Edinburgh where she majored in biological sciences, she was a research assistant in the department of forestry at Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany before going to China to study at Xiamen University and then China Pharmaceutical University. She received her Ph.D. in the history of science from Cambridge University in 1996. The recipient of research scholarships from the British Council/Chinese Government, the European Union Human Mobility Program, and the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, she has held post-doctoral fellowships awarded by the Wellcome Trust and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Dr. Andrews is the editor (with Andrew R. Cunningham) of Western Medicine as Contested Knowledge: Studies in Imperialism (1997) and the author of The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine , which will be published later this year by Cambridge University Press.

A shorthand way of considering the fellows is to examine those affiliated with Harvard faculties and their fellowship projects: Bridie J. Andrews, assistant professor of the history of science (a history of acupuncture); Lizabeth Cohen, Jones professor of American studies (a history of mass-consumption culture); Judith Lewis Herman, clinical professor of psychiatry (how the survivors of violent crime come to terms with their transgressors); Wilt L. Idema, professor of Chinese literature (women's writing in imperial China); Pamela Kohl Keel, assistant professor of psychology (on the changing epidemiology of bulimia nervosa); and Elizabeth Warren, Gottlieb professor of law (a book on women, children, divorce, and bankruptcy).

Bridie J. Andrews, PhD
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The following account by Bridie Andrews, a historian who has studied the original Chinese sources, sheds new light on the origins and significance of this therapy in its native land.

For most of Chinas long medical history, the practice of acupuncture was considered a poor relation to herbal treatment.
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Bridie J. Andrews is assistant professor in the department of history of science at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Bridie Andrews, Assistante Professor and Head Tutor, History of Science, Harvard University