Article ID: CBB000830329

Alternative Medicine's Encounter with Laboratory Science: The Scientific Construction of Korean Medicine in a Global Age (2007)

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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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Authors & Contributors
Shin, Dongwon
Suh, Soyoung
Ma, EunJeong
Karchmer, Eric I.
Jongwook Jeon
Taewoo Kim
Journals
Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity
Korean Journal of Medical History
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
Korea Journal
Publishers
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of California, Los Angeles
National University of Singapore Press
Harvard University Press
Duke University Press
Bergin & Garvey
Concepts
East Asia, civilization and culture
Medicine
Medicine, Chinese traditional
Medicine, traditional
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Western world, civilization and culture
People
Zhang, Zhongjing
Foucault, Michel
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
17th century
Choson dynasty (Korea, 1392-1910)
21st century
Places
Korea
China
India
Xinjiang Region (China)
Indonesia
Central Asia
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