Critical reflections on the field of tobacco research: The role of tobacco control in defining the tobacco research agenda
Critical reflections on the field of tobacco research: The role of tobacco control in defining the tobacco research agenda
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对烟草研究领域的批判性反思：烟草控制在确定烟草研究议程中的作用
DOI：
10.1080/09581590601045204
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
C. Kierans
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作者：
M. Mair;C. Kierans
近年来，烟草研究作为调查实践的一个领域，已被视为更广泛的烟草控制努力的主要贡献者和“全球卫生议程的重要组成部分”(世界卫生组织(1999))。直面流行病：烟草控制研究的全球议程。《日内瓦：世界卫生组织》，第14页；华纳，K.E.(2005)。研究在国际烟草控制中的作用。《美国公共卫生杂志》，95(6)，976-984)。然而，尽管对诸如《烟草控制框架公约》(烟草控制框架公约)(世界卫生组织(2003a)(批准于2005年))的具体研究影响进行了一些讨论。《烟草控制框架公约》。日内瓦：世卫组织，第20-22条)，烟草研究和烟草控制之间的关系究竟应该是什么性质的问题仍然存在。在这一中心问题的指导下，本文提请注意最近对这种关系的定义，特别是全球烟草研究网络(GTRN)所体现的这种关系，以促进关于这些定义如何试图影响研究议程的辩论。在整个过程中，主要的关键重点将是试图通过GTRN等实体生成该领域的特征，这些实体将与烟草有关的研究做法与其与烟草控制的关系联系起来。有人认为，这样的描述呈现了一幅扭曲和过于简单化的图景，说明我们如何评估我们在整个领域找到的经验性工作。将这些困难追溯到GTRN和世界卫生组织烟草研究方法所体现的狭隘的规范立场，文章最后认为，有必要承认而不是纠正烟草相关问题研究帮助建立的重叠和多样化的工作机构。
In recent years, tobacco research, as a field of investigative practices, has come to be seen as a major contributor to broader tobacco control efforts and a ‘significant component of the global health agenda’ (World Health Organization (1999). Confronting the epidemic: A Global Agenda For Tobacco Control Research. Geneva: WHO, p. 14; Warner, K. E. (2005). The role of research in international tobacco control. American Journal of Public Health, 95(6), 976–984). However, despite some discussion about the research-specific implications of, for instance, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) (World Health Organisation (2003a) (ratified 2005). The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Geneva: WHO, Articles 20–22), questions remain about what the exact nature of the relationship between tobacco research and tobacco control should be. Guided by that central question, this article draws attention to recent attempts to define this relationship, in particular that embodied in the Global Tobacco Research Network (GTRN), in order to facilitate debate on how such definitions attempt to shape the research agenda. Throughout, the main critical focus will be the attempt to generate characterizations of the field, through entities like the GTRN, which relate tobacco-related research practices vis-à-vis their relationship to tobacco control. It is argued that such characterizations present a distorted and oversimplified picture of how we might assess the empirical work we find across the field as a whole. Tracing these difficulties back to the narrow normative position embodied within the GTRN and World Health Organization approach to tobacco research, the article concludes by arguing that there is a need to recognize, rather than correct for, the overlapping and diverse bodies of work which the study of tobacco-related questions has helped establish.