Por Heong Hong

Por Heong Hong graduated from the School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, in November 2014. Her research interests lie at the convergence of cultural studies and postcolonial inquiry of issues regarding health, illness, medicine, bodies, gender, nationalism and modernity. She is currently a research member of the Malaysian Ministry of Education funded project on “Traditional Knowledge,” which examines how different forces and ideas—therapeutic, religious, scientific, and commercial—are interlaced with one another in the process of forming a regulatory framework for traditional medicine and herbal products in Malaysia.