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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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 17 2026 2 2025 1 2024 6 2023 1 2022 2 2021 1 2020 4

2026 2

David Graeber's anthropology and historical materialism

Critique of Anthropology
ONGARO, Giulio
Article

Functionalism versus the structuralist tradition

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, v. 49, p. e305
Ongaro, Giulio
Article

2025 1

When new shamans enter the stage: ecstatic healing and the neutralisation of messianism among Akha in northwestern Laos

Being Present: Emerging Ethnographic Perspectives and the Study of Laos / edited by Stolz Rosalie; Lutz Paul-David. National University of Singapore Press, 2025,
ONGARO, Giulio
Book chapter

2024 6

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

Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, v. 31, (3), p. 269-284
Ongaro, Giulio
Article

Outline for an Externalist Psychiatry (2) An Anthropological Detour

Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, v. 31, (3), p. 285-300
Ongaro, Giulio
Article

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

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

Social Psychiatry Inside-OUT

Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, v. 31, (3), p. 341-346
Ongaro, Giulio
Article

Why the extended mind is nothing special but is central

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, v. 23, (4), 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 / 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), p. 669-683
Ongaro, Giulio; Ballou, Sarah; Kube, Tobias; Haas, Julia; Kaptchuk, Ted J.
Article

2022 2

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

BMC Psychology, v. 10, (1), 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

Reply to Arandia and di Paolo

Pain, v. 163, (4), p. E605-E606
Ongaro, Giulio; Kaptchuk, Ted J.
Article

2021 1

Questioning the Consensus on Placebo and Nocebo Effects

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, v. 90, (3), p. 211-212
Hardman, Doug; Hutchinson, Phil; Ongaro, Giulio
Article

2020 1

Subjunctive medicine: A manifesto

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

2019 1

Symptom perception, placebo effects, and the Bayesian brain

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

2017 1

An enactive account of placebo effects

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

2016 1

Wild pigs cannot enter

Mekong Review Asian Literature, v. 2
Ongaro, Giulio
Article

Article 2

David Graeber's anthropology and historical materialism

Critique of Anthropology
ONGARO, Giulio

Functionalism versus the structuralist tradition

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, v. 49, p. e305
Ongaro, Giulio

Book chapter 1

When new shamans enter the stage: ecstatic healing and the neutralisation of messianism among Akha in northwestern Laos

Being Present: Emerging Ethnographic Perspectives and the Study of Laos / edited by Stolz Rosalie; Lutz Paul-David. National University of Singapore Press, 2025,
ONGARO, Giulio

Article 5

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

Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, v. 31, (3), p. 269-284
Ongaro, Giulio

Outline for an Externalist Psychiatry (2) An Anthropological Detour

Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, v. 31, (3), p. 285-300
Ongaro, Giulio

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

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

Social Psychiatry Inside-OUT

Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, v. 31, (3), p. 341-346
Ongaro, Giulio

Why the extended mind is nothing special but is central

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, v. 23, (4), 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 / 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), p. 669-683
Ongaro, Giulio; Ballou, Sarah; Kube, Tobias; Haas, Julia; Kaptchuk, Ted J.

Article 2

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

BMC Psychology, v. 10, (1), 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

Reply to Arandia and di Paolo

Pain, v. 163, (4), p. E605-E606
Ongaro, Giulio; Kaptchuk, Ted J.

Article 1

Questioning the Consensus on Placebo and Nocebo Effects

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, v. 90, (3), p. 211-212
Hardman, Doug; Hutchinson, Phil; Ongaro, Giulio

Article 1

Subjunctive medicine: A manifesto

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

Article 1

Symptom perception, placebo effects, and the Bayesian brain

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

Article 1

An enactive account of placebo effects

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

Article 1

Wild pigs cannot enter

Mekong Review Asian Literature, v. 2
Ongaro, Giulio

2020 1

Subjunctive medicine: A manifesto

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

2019 1

Symptom perception, placebo effects, and the Bayesian brain

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

2017 1

An enactive account of placebo effects

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

2016 1

Wild pigs cannot enter

Mekong Review Asian Literature, v. 2
Ongaro, Giulio
Article

Teaching Assignment

2026-27 Fall 2 2025-26 Summer 0 2025-26 Spring 1 2025-26 Winter 0 2025-26 Fall 2 2024-25 Summer 0

HMAW1905D	Behavioral Foundations of University Education: Habits, Mindsets, and Wellness
HUMA2400	Approaches to Humanities in China Studies

HUMA2636

Medical Anthropology

HMMA5001	Fundamentals of Chinese Culture
HUMA5702	A New History of Humanity

Research Interest

Publications

2026 2

2025 1

2024 6

2023 1

2022 2

2021 1

2020 1

2019 1

2017 1

2016 1

Article 2

Book chapter 1

Article 5

Book chapter 1

Article 1

Article 2

Article 1

Article 1

Article 1

Article 1

Article 1

2020 1

2019 1

2017 1

2016 1

Teaching Assignment

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2023 to December 2026 (As of 10 September 2026)

Current RPGs

Projects

From January 2024 to December 2026

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