Justin Hing Giap Lee
MA Sociology, UCLA
MA Sociology, National University of Singapore;
BA Sociology, National University of Singapore
Fax: 310-206-9838
E-mail:
jleehg@ucla.edu
Subfield
Economic, Medical, Cultural Sociology; Occupations and Professions; Theory and Method
Research Interests
2006 Psychotherapy Integration
2005 Justin Lee, "Investigating the Hybridity of ‘Wellness’ Practices" Department of Sociology, UCLA. Theory and Research in Comparative Social Analysis. Paper 28.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/uclasoc/trcsa/28 UCLA
2002 The Blurring of Boundaries at the Periphery: Explaining the Eclecticism and Syncretism of Alternative Healing, Psychotherapeutic, Motivational and Spiritual Movements. Masters Thesis, National University of Singapore.
2000 The Traditional Chinese Medicine Code of Ethics in Singapore: Process of Construction and Impact on Practitioners. Honours Thesis, National University of Singapore.
Publications
2004 "The Future of Integration: The Relationship between Traditional Chinese Medicine and Biomedicine" in Chinese Heritage Centre Bulletin, No.3, pg 33-35
http://www.chineseheritagecentre.org/bulletin/jun2004/jun2004.pdf
2003 Book Review on Robert Bartholomew's "Exotic Deviance: medicalizing Cultural Idioms-From Stangeness to Illness" in Asian Journal of Social Science, vol 31, no. 3.
Grants and Awards
2006 Teaching Fellow, UCLA
2003-2006 Teaching Assistantship, UCLA
2002 Fellowship, UCLA
2000-2002 Postgraduate Research Scholarship, National University of Singapore
1999 Dean’s List, National University of Singapore
Advisors
Rogers Brubaker
Stefan Timmermans
William Roy
Conference Presentations
2006 "The Structural Sources of Occupational Coalescence: Investigating the Hybridity of Wellness Practices" at the American Sociological Association 101st Meeting, Regular Session on Jobs, Occupations, and Professions.
2004 "Investigating the Hybridity of Wellness Practices" at the Graduate Student's Conference on Categories, Columbia University
http://www.iserp.columbia.edu/news/calendars/conferences/categories/papers/lee.pdf
2001 “Exploring the New Meanings of Health in Modernity: The Blurring of Boundaries between Peripheral Healing, Therapeutic, Motivational and Spiritual Movements”, at the Annual Medical Sociology Conference, British Sociological Association.
2001 “The Blurring of Boundaries between Alternative Healing and Religious Practices”, at the 5th Inter-Asean University Seminar on Social Development, National University of Singapore
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