David N. Luesink, Ph.D

David Luesink is a historian of modern China with particular interests in the history of medicine and science. He received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia and has taught in Vancouver, Indianapolis, and Pittsburgh before joining the faculty at Sacred Heart in August of 2017. He teaches classes on modern and late imperial China, East Asian history, the history of medicine in China, history of science, as well as the History of Western Civilization. He is currently working on a book manuscript on the history of anatomy in China that explores how new knowledge of the human body was connected to technologies of statemaking. The book, currently called The Body Politic and the Body Anatomic in Modern China, explores how political anatomy transformed conceptions of race, language, and medicine at the turn of the twentieth century. Publications related to this research have been published in the Journal of Asian Studies and in an edited volume published by the University of Manchester Press. His edited volume, China and the Globalization of Biomedicine, demonstrates how the developments in the medical field in China affected the way biomedicine evolved globally between 1850 and 1950.