Isaac C. K. Tan’s current book project looks at the history of ABO blood group research in Japan—charting its historical development since the 1910s and highlighting its wider political, social, and cultural implications in contemporary Japan.
He has also written journal articles on topics ranging from geopolitics in medieval East Asia to the natural history of British colonial India; and has received the 2021 AIHP Glenn Sonnedecker Prize for a manuscript on the prescribing-dispensing separation issue in modern Japan.
More information on his academic profile can be found at https://tckisaac.wordpress.com.
