Elias Bouckaert is a PhD student at the department of Languages and Cultures. He specialises in medical history in Edo period Japan, particularly focussing on understandings of the human body and the internal organs. Crucial to this understanding is the ancient Chinese 五臓六腑 (Ch: wuzang liufu, Jp: gozô roppu) framework, which can be translated as "five viscera and six entrails".
