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Judith Brook Farquhar 馮珠娣 {b. ) is Max Palevsky Professor Emerita of Anthropology and of Social Sciences, University of Chicago. She works in the fields of medical anthropology; anthropology of everyday life; popular culture studies; post-structural and critical theory; all with a special interest in China.

She was awarded a Collaborative Research Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies to study "Healing and Heritage: Sorting out Ethnic Traditional Medicine in China" in 2012.

She is a member of the editorial boards of Medical Anthropology, China Review International and positions: East Asia Cultures Critique]].

Early life and career
Her parents were Mary (Stetson) Farquhar and Roger Brook Farquhar. Her father was a journalist and newspaper editor for the Washington Post and the Montgomery County, Maryland Sentinal. He was chosen for the Montgomery County Human Rights Hall of Fame for his editorials and investigative reporting on civil rights.

After studying at Antioch College, 1964-1966, she received an A.M. in the Social Sciences, University of Chicago, in 1975. She studied Chinese language at the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies in Taipei, Taiwan, from 1982 to 1984. As part of her research fieldwork, she attended the Guangzhou College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1986, and was Instructor in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division from 1985 to 1986. In 1986 she joined the University of North Carolina Anthropology Department, where she was chair from 2001 to 2004. She joined University of Chicago faculty in 2004.

Medicine, health, and healing
Her initial monograph, Knowing Practice, developed from her doctoral dissertation, was based on her fieldwork at the Guangzhou College of Traditional Medicine and research in archives and libraries. She notes in the Preface that her work "contributes little to the advancement of Chinese medicine as a healing art and clinical discipline." Rather, it gives insight into the experience of giving and receiving medical healing.

Selected publications

 * 2021 Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China’s Mountain South. With Lili Lai, University of Chicago Press.
 * 2021 Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China’s Mountain South. With Lili Lai, University of Chicago Press.


 * 2015 Metaphysics at the Bedside. In H. Chiang, ed., Historical Epistemology and the Making of Chinese Medicine. Manchester University Press, pp. 219-236.
 * 2015 Nationality Medicines in China: Institutional Rationality and Healing Charisma (with Lili Lai). Comparative Studies in Society and History. 57(2): 381-406.
 * 2014 Information and Its Practical Other: Crafting Zhuang Nationality Medicine (with Lili Lai). East Asian Science and Technology Studies (EASTS). 8: 417-437.
 * 2013 Chinese Medicine as Popular Knowledge in Urban China. In L. Barnes & T.J Hinrichs, eds., Chinese Medicine and Healing: An Illustrated History. Harvard University Press: 272-274
 * 2013 Reading Hands: Pulse Qualities and the Specificity of the Clinical. East Asian Science and Technology Studies (EASTS). 8(1): 1-16.
 * 2012 Ten Thousand Things: Nurturing Life in Contemporary Beijing. (w/ Zhang Qicheng) Zone Press.
 * 2012 Knowledge in Translation: Global Science, Local Things. In Lesley Green and Susan Levine, eds., Medicine and the Politics of Knowledge. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council Press: 153-170.
 * 2012 Pulse-Touching: Qualities and the Best Practitioner. In Hugh MacPherson and Volker Scheid, eds., Integrating East Asian Medicine into Contemporary Healthcare: Authenticity, Best Practice and the Evidence Mosaic. Elsevier. Pp. 39-53. (Appeared in 2013 EASTS: East Asian Science and Technology Studies journal, revised: Reading Hands: Pulse Qualities and the Specificity of the Clinical.)
 * 2010 The Park Pass: Peopling and Civilizing a New Old Beijing. Public Culture 21(3): 551-576.
 * 2010 How to Live: Reading China’s Popular Health Media. In K.K. Liew, ed., Liberalizing, Feminizing, and Popularizing Health Communications in Asia. Ashgate Publishers.
 * 2007 Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life. (ed. w/ M. Lock) Durham: Duke University Press.
 * 2006 Food, Eating and the Good Life. In C. Tilley, et al., eds., The Sage Handbook of Material Culture. London: Sage, 145-160.
 * 2005 Biopolitical Beijing: Pleasure, Sovereignty, and Self-Cultivation in China ‘s Capital. Cultural Anthropology. 20(3):303-327.


 * 2001 For Your Reading Pleasure: Popular Health Advice and the Anthropology of Everyday Life in 1990s Beijing. Positions. 9(1): 105-130.
 * 1999 Technologies of Everyday Life: The Economy of Impotence in Reform China. Cultural Anthropology. 14(2): 155-179.
 * 1998 Empires of Hygiene, a special Issue of positions volume 6, no. 3 (winter). (Co-edited with Marta Hanson). This issue was recognized by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (Modern Language Association) with a second place award for Best Special Issue.
 * 1996 Market Magic: Getting Rich and Getting Personal in Medicine after Mao. American Ethnologist 23(2): 239-257.
 * 1995 ewriting Chinese Medicine in Post-Mao China. In D. Bates, ed., Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 251-276.
 * 1994 Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter in Chinese Medicine Boulder: Westview Press. Rpr. Taylor and Francis, 2018.
 * 1994 Eating Chinese Medicine. Cultural Anthropology. 9(4): 471-497.
 * 1994 Multiplicity, Point of View, and Responsibility in Traditional Chinese Medicine. In A. Zito & T. Barlow, eds., Body, Subjectivity and Power in China. University of Chicago Press, 78-99.
 * 1993 The Concept of Culture in Post-War American Historiography of China. Positions 1:2, 486-525.
 * 1992 Time and Text: Approaching contemporary Chinese medicine through analysis of a case. In Charles Leslie & Allan Young, eds., Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge. Berkeley: University of California Press
 * 1991 Objects, Processes, and Female Infertility in Chinese Medicine. Medical Anthropology Quarterly (NS) 5(4): 370-399.
 * 1987 Problems of Knowledge in Contemporary Chinese Medical Discourse. Social Science and Medicine. 24 (No.12), pp. 1013 1021.
 * 1987 Night of the Living Dead: An American Horror Myth, Semiotica 38, 1/2, pp. 1 15.Anthropology.
 * 1987 Night of the Living Dead: An American Horror Myth, Semiotica 38, 1/2, pp. 1 15.Anthropology.