Bridie Andrews, BSc, PhD
After graduating from Edinburgh University with a BSc in Biology, Bridie Andrews moved to China to learn Chinese at Xiamen University. Subsequently, she studied Chinese pharmacy at the China University of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Nanjing. Dr. Andrews obtained a PhD from Cambridge University in the history of medicine in China. She has held post-doctoral fellowships at the London School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University. An assistant professor of East Asian history at Bentley University, Dr. Andrews also served as assistant professor of the history of science at Harvard University from 1998-2004.
Dr. Andrews’ publications include two co-edited volumes, Western Medicine as Contested Knowledge (with A.R. Cunningham, Manchester University Press, 1997), and Medicine and Colonial Identity (with Mary P. Sutphen, Routledge, 2003). She is preparing to publish a monograph, The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine. Her research focuses on the history of interactions between Chinese and Western medicine.