Prof. Dr. Keekok Lee (GB)
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Keekok Lee is a graduate in philosophy of the University of Singapore, the University of Oxford and the University of Manchester. She taught briefly at the University of Singapore before joining the University of Manchester where she remained until she took early retirement in 1999. Since then, she has continued to be active in research and publication, affiliated initially to the University of Lancaster, and latterly to the University of Manchester as Honorary Research Fellow in the Faculty of Humanities. Her philosophical preoccupations cover several domains including moral/political/social/environmental philosophy, philosophy of medicine and genetics as well as comparative philosophy, namely Modern Western and Classical Chinese. Some of her more recent monographs are: The Philosophical Foundations of Modern Medicine, 2012. The Philosophical Foundations of Classical Chinese Medicine: Philosophy, Methodology, Science, 2017. Classical Chinese Medicine: Theory, Methodology and Therapy in Its Philosophical Framework, 2018. Plato and Democracy Today: 20/20 Reith Lectures. Stephenson Library, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2018. Modern Western and Ancient Chinese Philosophy: A Case Study of Intercultural Philosophy. 2021. A Case-study of Intercultural Philosophy of Medicine: Biomedicine, Classical Chinese Medicine and the Colonial Mind-set. 2021. (A full list of monographs and journal articles is available at: www.keekoklee.org
