Beyond Paragidm : Making Transcultural Connections in a Scientific Translation of Acupuncture  

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Jongyoung Kim

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 12 (Jun. 2006), page 2960-2972.
Topik: PARADIGM; paradigm; acupuncture; east asian medicines; mangle; functional MRI

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.4 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This paper examines the ways in which the acupuncture phenomenon is translated into scientific language through the mobilization of functional magnetic resonance imaging. In doing so, it explores how differences between science and traditional medicine are bridged and negotiated through an open ended tuning process among heterogeneous elements. By showing the constructive interaction between traditional medicine and science, i aim to refuge a conception of east asian medicines as culturally bounded and to provide an interpretation of transculturalism that emphasizes its diverse and hybrid formations. Particularly, in order to explain the scientific translation of acupuncture, I refer to andrew oickering;s mangle of practice as an alternative to thomas kuhn's paradigm. Adopting a performative persepective rather than a representational one with regard to science. i read the scientific interpretation of acupunctutre as an interactive stabilization between the acupuncture phenomenon, neurological theory and the material procedure of the MRI machine.

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