Title | Alternative Medicine's Encounter with Laboratory Science The Scientific Construction of Korean Medicine in a Global Age |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2007 |
Authors | Kim, Jongyoung |
Journal | Social Studies of Science |
Volume | 37 |
Issue | 6 |
Pagination | 855-880 |
ISSN | 0306-3127, 1460-3659 |
Abstract | 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. |
URL | http://sss.sagepub.com/content/37/6/855 |
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