Article ID: CBB001421209

Constructing the East--West Boundary: The Contested Place of a Modern Imaging Technology in South Korea's Dual Medical System (2014)

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This article presents a case study of a recent controversy over the use of computed tomography (CT) as a diagnostic technology in South Korean hospitals. The controversy occurred in the wake of a series of conflicts in the late twentieth century over the legitimate placement of healing practices, medicinal substances, and medical technologies within Korea's separate Western Medicine (WM) and Korean Medicine (KM) systems of health care and pharmaceutical distribution. The controversy concerned an attempt to use hi-tech imaging technology---the epitome of modern medicine---in a clinic that maintains a strong ideological attachment to Korean healing traditions. A close study of this dispute, based on interviews, participant observation, and documentary analysis, showed that discursive positions taken about the translatability of medical technologies changed with the context of dispute, and did not reflect a stable epistemic boundary between rival medical paradigms.

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Authors & Contributors
Shin, Youjung
Eunkyung Yoon
Francis Newman
Taehyung Lee
Pedro, Rosa Maria Leite Ribeiro
Leitao, António Nogueira
Concepts
Medical technology
Cross-national interaction
Controversies and disputes
Imaging technology
Medicine, traditional
Hospitals and clinics
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
South Korea
China
Great Britain
Greenland
West Germany
Institutions
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Royal Society of London
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