Vale Dr Natalie Köhle

We are sad to announce that Dr Natalie Köhle passed away on Monday morning. Natalie was a historian of Chinese medicine, interested in the transcultural history of bodily fluids and in the history of Chinese materia medica. Her co-authored book Fluid Matter(s): Flow and Transformation in the History of the Body was published by ANU Press in 2020. She received a MA and PhD degrees from Harvard University and a BA Hons. degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. She was located at the University of Sydney within the School of History and Philosophy of Science for a relatively short time but is remembered as a generous, kind and deeply scholarly colleague. In 2023 AAHPSSS welcomed Natalie to present one of our plenary sessions at the AAHPSSS Conference.

We send our deepest condolences to her family, friends and close colleagues at this difficult time.