Institutional Affiliation
University of Denver
Department of History
Education
Ph.D., M.A., University of Pennsylvania
M.Phil., Cambridge University
A.B., Princeton University
Research Interests
Chinese history; history of science and medicine
Regional and Thematic Interests
East Asia
History
Profile
My teaching and research interests lie at the intersection between Chinese history and the history of science and medicine; I am interested in how people living in very different times and cultures from our own made sense of the natural world, including their own bodies. My research centers on changing understandings of disease in Chinese society, and on relationships between diet and health as Chinese doctors and patients have understood them. I enjoy teaching a wide range of classes, such as imperial and modern Chinese history, comparative history of medicine, and disease in world history.
Publication
Hilary A. Smith. Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine. Stanford University Press, 2017