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Chinese Medicine on the Move into Central Europe: A Contribution to the Debate on Correlativity and Decentering STS (March 2018)

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Medicine, Chinese traditional Political economy Medicine Transborder data flow Alternative medicine Technoscience; science and technology studies Eastern Europe China Lin, Wen-yuan Law, John

Contributing to the ongoing debate on decentering science, technology, and society (STS) from Western contexts, this article elaborates on and reconsiders Wen-yuan Lin and John Law’s proposal for correlative STS (“A Correlative STS” 2014). Like them, we empirically draw on Chinese medicine (CM) and its relation to biomedicine, but we explore the modes by which CM was enacted in the historical, political, and sociomaterial settings of socialist and postsocialist Central Europe. We show that not only specific correlations but also correlativity itself—as the ontological stance of the actors—are situated and can shift. Our argument regarding STS is twofold. First, while Lin and Law argue that STS needs to develop an appropriate mode of betrayal when translating across ontological differences from a source language to a destination language (Western analytics), we show that in our case an ethnographer cannot find any single source language. Consequently, we argue that STS should study actors’ modes and moves of betrayal and their doing ontology as an open process. Second, unlike Lin and Law, who postulate the Chinese mode of international as “subtle” and “minimalist” and an alternative to the Western mode (Lin and Law 2013), we argue that with the rise of China and the changing world political economy, STS needs to be more attentive to dominating expansions that come from non-Western locations as much as from the West.

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Authors & Contributors
Marié, Éric
Fuchs, Martina
Jorge Gibert Galassi
Schalljo, Martin
Kuo-Li Pi
Vessuri, Hebe
Journals
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
Taiwanese Journal for Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Social Studies of Science
Social History of Medicine
Science, Technology and Human Values
Science as Culture
Publishers
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Hawai'i Press
Springer
Oxford University Press
Harvard University Press
Duke University Press
Concepts
Medicine, Chinese traditional
Medicine
East Asia, civilization and culture
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Sociology of knowledge
People
Lin, Wen-yuan
Law, John
Hu Tingguang
Rashid al-Din Tabid
Bloor, David
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
Medieval
20th century, late
19th century
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
Places
China
Latin America
United States
Russia
Japan
Germany
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