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
Jongwook Jeon
Taewoo Kim
Daidoji, Keiko
Concepts
East Asia, civilization and culture
Medicine
Medicine, traditional
Medicine, Chinese traditional
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Western world, civilization and culture
Time Periods
20th century, late
19th century
20th century
18th century
Choson dynasty (Korea, 1392-1910)
21st century
Places
Korea
China
Japan
Tibet
India
Xinjiang Region (China)
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