The HCTS recently welcomed Dr. Natalia Bachour as a new member. Since the beginning of June, she has been working on her project "The human body as remedy out of a historico-cultural and medical perspective: Studies about the knowledge transfer in the Arabian medicine of Middle Ages and modern times." It focuses on the culturally determined change of body perceptions and the procedures of transcultural knowledge sharing. Dr. Bachour is a scholar in translation studies, history of science and pharmacy, and acquired her PhD at Heidelberg University in the history of pharmacy.
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