Welcome to Technologies of Care, an ethnographic research lab led by medical anthropologist Dr. Priscilla Song at the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong. The TechCare Lab examines local experiences, regional entanglements, and global flows of technological transformation, scientific research, and medical practice in East Asia and beyond. Through humanistic inquiry and ethnographic approaches, we investigate the analytical questions and ethical dilemmas posed by contemporary and historical technoscientific projects and experimental health regimes.
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Technologies of Care
Supported by a million HK dollar grant from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council’s General Research Fund, this Technologies of Care project examines the culture and ethics of end-of-life care…
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Biomedical Odysseys
Based on a decade of multi-sited ethnographic research funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, this TechCare project addresses the globalization of experimental medicine. The Biomedical Odysseys Project analyses the…
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Eldercare and Gerontechnologies
The Eldercare and Gerontechnologies project is a multidisciplinary research collaboration with colleagues in anthropology, sociology, social work, and public health at Fudan University in Shanghai. This collaborative work extends beyond…
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Cultures of Masking
This TechCare project explores the sociocultural and politico-economic dimensions of a crucial technology of everyday life for managing the COVID-19 pandemic: masks. In the current worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, different public…
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