Faculty Profiles - ONGARO Giulio | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Giulio ONGARO

PhD in Social Anthropology
The London School of Economics and Political Science, 2020

Assistant Professor
Division of Humanities

Assistant Director of South China Research Center

(852) 2358 5871
hmongaro@ust.hk
Room 2354
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Google Scholar

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ORCID

0000-0003-2782-0642

ResearcherID

LGY-7796-2024

Scopus ID

57193898692

Research Interest Publications Teaching Assignment RPG Supervision

Research Interest

Ethnic minorities in China and in highland Southeast Asia
Ethnopsychiatry
Medical anthropology
Philosophy of psychiatry
Global history

Publications

All Years 11 2025 0 2024 5 2023 1 2022 1 2021 0 2020 1 2019 3

2024 5

Outline for an Externalist Psychiatry (1): Or, How to Fully Realize the Biopsychosocial Model

Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, v. 31, (3), September 2024
Ongaro, Giulio
Article

Outline for an Externalist Psychiatry (2): An Anthropological Detour

Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, v. 31, (3), September 2024
Ongaro, Giulio
Article

Outline for an Externalist Psychiatry (3): Social Etiology and the Tension Between Constraints and the Possibilities of Construction

Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, v. 31, (3), September 2024, p. 301-314
Ongaro, Giulio
Article

Why the extended mind is nothing special but is central

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, v. 23, (4), September 2024, p. 841-863
Ongaro, Giulio; Hardman, Doug; Deschenaux, Ivan
Article

The cultural identity of techniques: the transmission of herbal medical knowledge among the Akha of highland Laos

The Evolution of Techniques: Rigidity and Flexibility in Use, Transmission, and Innovation / edited by Mathieu Charbonneau. The MIT Press, 2024
Ongaro, Giulio
Book chapter

2023 1

Doctors Speak: A Qualitative Study of Physicians’ Prescribing of Antidepressants in Functional Bowel Disorders

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, v. 47, (3), September 2023, p. 669-683
Ongaro, Giulio; Ballou, Sarah; Kube, Tobias; Haas, Julia; Kaptchuk, Ted J.
Article

2022 1

Patients’ experiences treated with open-label placebo versus double-blind placebo: a mixed methods qualitative study

BMC Psychology, v. 10, (1), February 2022, article number 20
Haas, Julia W.; Ongaro, Giulio; Jacobson, Eric; Conboy, Lisa A.; Nee, Judy; Iturrino, Johanna; Rangan, Vikram; Lembo, Anthony; Kaptchuk, Ted J.; Ballou, Sarah
Article

2020 1

Subjunctive medicine: A manifesto

Social Science and Medicine, v. 256, July 2020, article number 113039
Hardman, Doug; Ongaro, Giulio
Article

2019 1

Symptom perception, placebo effects, and the Bayesian brain

Pain, v. 160, (1), January 2019, p. 1-4
Ongaro, Giulio; Kaptchuk, Ted J.
Article

2017 1

An enactive account of placebo effects

Biology and Philosophy, v. 32, (4), April 2017, p. 507-533
Ongaro, Giulio; Ward, Dave
Article

2016 1

Wild pigs cannot enter

Mekong Review Asian Literature, v. 2, (5), November 2016
Ongaro, Giulio
Article

Article 4

Outline for an Externalist Psychiatry (1): Or, How to Fully Realize the Biopsychosocial Model

Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, v. 31, (3), September 2024
Ongaro, Giulio

Outline for an Externalist Psychiatry (2): An Anthropological Detour

Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, v. 31, (3), September 2024
Ongaro, Giulio

Outline for an Externalist Psychiatry (3): Social Etiology and the Tension Between Constraints and the Possibilities of Construction

Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, v. 31, (3), September 2024, p. 301-314
Ongaro, Giulio

Why the extended mind is nothing special but is central

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, v. 23, (4), September 2024, p. 841-863
Ongaro, Giulio; Hardman, Doug; Deschenaux, Ivan

Book chapter 1

The cultural identity of techniques: the transmission of herbal medical knowledge among the Akha of highland Laos

The Evolution of Techniques: Rigidity and Flexibility in Use, Transmission, and Innovation / edited by Mathieu Charbonneau. The MIT Press, 2024
Ongaro, Giulio

Article 1

Doctors Speak: A Qualitative Study of Physicians’ Prescribing of Antidepressants in Functional Bowel Disorders

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, v. 47, (3), September 2023, p. 669-683
Ongaro, Giulio; Ballou, Sarah; Kube, Tobias; Haas, Julia; Kaptchuk, Ted J.

Article 1

Patients’ experiences treated with open-label placebo versus double-blind placebo: a mixed methods qualitative study

BMC Psychology, v. 10, (1), February 2022, article number 20
Haas, Julia W.; Ongaro, Giulio; Jacobson, Eric; Conboy, Lisa A.; Nee, Judy; Iturrino, Johanna; Rangan, Vikram; Lembo, Anthony; Kaptchuk, Ted J.; Ballou, Sarah

Article 1

Subjunctive medicine: A manifesto

Social Science and Medicine, v. 256, July 2020, article number 113039
Hardman, Doug; Ongaro, Giulio

Article 1

Symptom perception, placebo effects, and the Bayesian brain

Pain, v. 160, (1), January 2019, p. 1-4
Ongaro, Giulio; Kaptchuk, Ted J.

Article 1

An enactive account of placebo effects

Biology and Philosophy, v. 32, (4), April 2017, p. 507-533
Ongaro, Giulio; Ward, Dave

Article 1

Wild pigs cannot enter

Mekong Review Asian Literature, v. 2, (5), November 2016
Ongaro, Giulio

2019 1

Symptom perception, placebo effects, and the Bayesian brain

Pain, v. 160, (1), January 2019, p. 1-4
Ongaro, Giulio; Kaptchuk, Ted J.
Article

2017 1

An enactive account of placebo effects

Biology and Philosophy, v. 32, (4), April 2017, p. 507-533
Ongaro, Giulio; Ward, Dave
Article

2016 1

Wild pigs cannot enter

Mekong Review Asian Literature, v. 2, (5), November 2016
Ongaro, Giulio
Article

No Publications

Teaching Assignment

2024-25 Spring 1 2024-25 Winter 0 2024-25 Fall 1 2023-24 Summer 0 2023-24 Spring 0 2023-24 Winter 0

HUMA2634

Global History: New Anthropological Perspectives

HUMA5701

Culture, Psychiatry and Mental Illness

No Teaching Assignments

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2022 to December 2025 (As of 01 April 2025)

Current RPGs

Master of Philosophy

QIN, Kunyu (co-supervision)
Humanities
WEI, Zhifei
Humanities

Research Interest

Publications

2024 5

2023 1

2022 1

2020 1

2019 1

2017 1

2016 1

Article 4

Book chapter 1

Article 1

Article 1

Article 1

Article 1

Article 1

Article 1

2019 1

2017 1

2016 1

Teaching Assignment

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2022 to December 2025 (As of 01 April 2025)

Current RPGs

Projects

From January 2023 to December 2025

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