Leon Antonio Rocha

Lecturer

East Asian history of science and medicine; History of the Human Sciences; Eugenics; Sex and Gender; Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis; Colonialism; Translation

Education

• B.A. Natural Sciences – History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, 2000 (Cambridge M.A. received in 2007)
• M.Phil. History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, 2004
• Ph.D. History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, expected 2009

Papers in Press

1. Rocha, L.A. “Scientia Sexualis versus Ars Erotica: Foucault, van Gulik, Needham, Orientalism”. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Science. Under revision.
2. Rocha, L.A. “Xing: The Discourse of Sex and Human Nature in Modern China”. Gender and History, Special Issue “Historicising Sexuality and Gender”, 2010, 22, 3. Under review.