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吳易叡專書著作Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization（《度量瘋狂：精神疾病和世界衛生組織的科學主義》），獲2023 Finalist for the Cheiron Book Prize與中央研究院第十三屆人文及社會科學學術性專書獎。
Dr.Yi-Jui Wu’s monograph Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization was awarded the 2023 Finalist for the Cheiron Book Prize and the 13th Academia Sinica Scholarly Monograph Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

自110年9月起，吳易叡副教授加入成功大學全校不分系學士學位學程，積極拓展醫學史與醫學人文領域研究。在醫學史方面，他以跨國史視野重新檢視東亞醫療發展，突破過往以單一機構為核心的侷限，轉而聚焦於跨境交流、制度形成與知識流動，為全球衛生史提出新的理論框架。他的專書 Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization（中譯：《度量瘋狂：精神疾病和世界衛生組織的科學主義》），正是一部具有全球視野的跨國精神病學史。此書探討世界衛生組織在戰後國際體制下，如何透過附屬研究團體推動跨國精神疾病研究，並檢視「去殖民」與「世界公民」理想中的張力與限制。書中特別呈現臺灣精神科醫師林宗義的案例，揭示在困境與機會交織之下，臺灣如何在全球心理衛生網絡中發揮影響力。

本書不僅獲得2023年 Cheiron Book Prize 決選（Finalist），更榮獲中央研究院第十三屆「人文及社會科學學術性專書獎」肯定，足見其學術價值與國際影響力。透過此書，吳副教授展現了跨學科研究的深度與廣度，開闢了全球精神病學史的新視野，也使成功大學在醫學人文研究上邁向國際舞台的重要里程碑。

在醫學人文領域方面，結合「敘事轉向」開發多門兼具研究與教學創新的課程：包括以深度訪談與紀錄劇場形式呈現照顧經驗的「照顧劇場」，串連醫院、社區與台灣文學基地，推動全民性的敘事關懷；以博物館學蒐藏方法回應COVID-19的「大疫考現學」，訓練學生以社會傳記和跨域討論建構歷史思維；呼應雙語政策開設「心智扭轉面面觀」，融合英語授課與Podcast實作，探討科學史與科技社會議題。這些課程強調創客式跨域教學與終身學習理念，將醫學人文能量擴散至社會場域。

Since September 2021, Dr. Yi-Jui Wu has joined the Cross College Elite Program (CCEP) at National Cheng Kung University, where he has actively advanced his research in medical history and medical humanities.

In the domain of medical history, he reexamines East Asian health development through a transnational lens. Breaking away from institution-centric narratives, he emphasizes cross-border interaction, institutional formation, and knowledge circulation—thus proposing fresh theoretical frameworks in global health history.

His monograph, Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization (Chinese edition: 《度量瘋狂：精神疾病和世界衛生組織的科學主義》), is a globally oriented history of transnational psychiatry. It investigates how WHO-affiliated research groups in the postwar period promoted cross-national studies in mental disorders, while critically examining the tensions and limits of “decolonization” and “world citizenship.” A noteworthy section focuses on Taiwanese psychiatrist Tsung-Yi Lin, illustrating how Taiwan navigated structural constraints and leveraged opportunities to contribute within global mental health networks.

This book was honored as a 2023 Finalist for the Cheiron Book Prize and was awarded the 13th Academic Book Award in Humanities and Social Sciences by Academia Sinica. With both scope and precision, Dr. Wu’s work expands the conversation on the global history of psychiatry and enhances NCKU’s international presence in medical humanities.

In medical humanities, he leverages the narrative turn to innovate cross-disciplinary courses: Care Theatre, which uses in-depth interviews and verbatim theater to stage caregiving experiences and foster a society-wide practice of narrative care; Pandemic Modernology, an experiential workshop in which students collect everyday COVID-19 artifacts and write their “social biographies.” With cross-disciplinary mentoring, students use the pandemic as a lens to examine Taiwan’s past and present socio-cultural health dynamics, reflect on medical human rights under pandemic-era social security systems, and—via this “archaeology of the present”—build historiographical thinking; and Mind-bending in world Cultures, a bilingual, podcast-enabled course that probes cases in the history of science and STS. These courses emphasize maker-style, cross-domain pedagogy and lifelong learning.