Giulio Ongaro

Giulio Ongaro

Dr Giulio Ongaro is a scholar in the fields of medical and cognitive anthropology. He earned his PhD from the London School of Economics in 2020. He conducted ethnographic fieldwork among the Akha people of highland Laos, studying their medical knowledge system, of shamanic tradition ritual healing. He focused particularly on how healing rituals work and how people think that they work, making comparative analyzes across cultures. In parallel to his anthropological studies, he conducted research within the science of the 'placebo of effect' (the empirical study therapeutic rituals can elicit clinically significant responses) in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team from Harvard Medical School. This collaboration led to several publications in neuroscience and philosophy journals. While at SUSTech, Giulio will teach courses on medical anthropology, global history, and philosophy of mind and psychiatry. Bringing all the strands of his previous research together, he is currently writing a book on the global history of medicine.

 

 

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Announcing the 7th Class of Junior Fellows in the Liberal Arts, SUSTech

Announcing the 7th Class of Junior Fellows in the Liberal Arts, SUSTech

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