Alternative Medicine's Encounter with Laboratory Science: The Scientific Construction of Korean Medicine in a Global Age.  

Oleh:

Kim, Jongyoung

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Studies of Science vol. 37 no. 6 (Dec. 2007), page 855.
Topik: globalization; Korean medicine; laboratory studies; neuroscience; scientific translation
Fulltext: 855.pdf (399.39KB)

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Through ethnographic research at the Graduate School of East–West Medical Science (GSM) at Kyung Hee University in South Korea, this paper examines how a hybrid research team translates Korean medicine (KM) into scientific languages through the mobilization of laboratory science in a global knowledge-making field. Paying attention to the asymmetric power relationship between KM and science, I show that the richness and liveliness of KM is truncated as it enters the global scientific field. This lab study examines: (1) KM’s double approach to local KM and global scientific fields; (2) the lab’s political function in relation to biomedicine and science; and (3) the identity crisis and reconstruction of KM caused by its scientific translation.

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