Associate Professor of Asian History & Religious Studies, Pennsylvania State University
I am an interdisciplinary humanities scholar interested in the role of Buddhism in the crosscultural exchange of medical ideas. I have a Ph.D. in History of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and teach Asian history, religion, and culture at Penn State University’s Abington College, located near Philadelphia. The major theme in my scholarship is the interplay between the global transmission and local reception of Buddhist knowledge about health, disease, and the body.
There is much more to mindfulness than the popular media hype
Feb 02, 2022 09:10 am UTC| Health
Mindfulness is seemingly everywhere these days. A Google search I conducted in January 2022 for the term mindfulness resulted in almost 3 billion hits. The practice is now routinely offered in workplaces, schools,...
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