Doctoral Dissertation Research - Imagining "difference": Preserving culture and practicing science in Ayurvedic research in India

博士论文研究 - 想象“差异”：印度阿育吠陀研究中的保护文化和实践科学

• 批准号: 0819310
• 负责人: Jean Langford
• 金额: $ 0.79万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-01-01 至 2009-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0819310&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Imagining; difference

This doctoral dissertation research, supported by the Science, Technology & Society program at NSF, examines the project of preserving India's traditional medical system. This preservation project has resulted in inter-cultural medical research, but sets modern biomedical parameters for confirming the authority of indigenous (Ayurvedic) medical practice. The National Policy on Indian Systems of Medicine framed by the Government of India in 2001 produces new terms of legitimacy for Ayurveda at the international level. The policy adapts and appropriates Ayurvedic science in response to demands for international accountability in medical science research, with a simultaneous consciousness to national positioning of the Ayurvedic medical system. This research brings together tools and concepts from science and technology studies and anthropologies of globalization to investigate three questions. First, how does the state narrative of "preserving culture" interface with enforcement of international standards of scientific research protocol (e.g., to validate Complementary and Alternative Medicine research in the US)? Secondly, how do two collaborating groups of scientists (biomedical and Ayurvedic) negotiate diverse epistemologies to develop a "modern" Ayurvedic pharmacopoeia? Finally, how do Ayervedic scientists understand "inter-cultural" medical research as they seek to emerge as members of the global scientific medical community and full-fledged members of the Indian health care community at the same time? The use of textual and ethnographic methods to explore scientific work in this research permits a focus on a unique stage in medical encounters in a postcolonial society. This research shifts the focus beyond the incorporation of biomedical knowledge in Ayurvedic clinics to the collaborative development of Ayurvedic knowledge with biomedical scientists in pharmacological laboratories. This dissertation research will add to the few sustained studies investigating the micro-level encounter between two major systems of medical knowledge in India by identifying the laboratory as the formative locus of this encounter. Additionally, this research will situate the evolution of Ayurvedic knowledge as a unique moment in the history of the institutionalization of traditional medical knowledges that "preserves" by collaborating across national and global margins. The close observation, participation and description that an ethnographic mode of inquiry brings to this project will analyze not only discourses, but also the scientific practices that may transform Ayurveda's own approach to the body, disease, health and healing.

这篇博士论文的研究，在NSF的科学，技术社会计划的支持下，研究保护印度的传统医疗系统的项目。这一保护项目导致了跨文化医学研究，但为确认土著（阿育吠陀）医疗实践的权威性设定了现代生物医学参数。印度政府于2001年制定的印度医学系统国家政策为阿育吠陀在国际一级的合法性提供了新的条件。该政策调整和适当的阿育吠陀科学，以回应医学科学研究的国际问责制的要求，同时意识到阿育吠陀医疗系统的国家定位。这项研究汇集了科学技术研究和全球化人类学的工具和概念，以调查三个问题。首先，“保护文化”的国家叙述如何与执行科学研究协议的国际标准（例如，在美国验证补充和替代医学研究）？其次，两个科学家合作小组（生物医学和阿育吠陀）如何协商不同的认识论，以制定一个“现代”阿育吠陀药典？ 最后，阿育吠陀科学家如何理解“跨文化”医学研究，因为他们寻求成为全球科学医学界的成员，同时也是印度卫生保健界的正式成员？使用文本和民族志的方法来探索科学工作，在这项研究允许集中在一个独特的阶段，在医疗遭遇在后殖民社会。 这项研究将重点从阿育吠陀诊所的生物医学知识转移到与药理实验室的生物医学科学家合作开发阿育吠陀知识。本论文的研究将添加到几个持续的研究调查在印度的医学知识的两个主要系统之间的微观层面的遭遇，确定实验室的形成轨迹，这种遭遇。此外，这项研究将把阿育吠陀知识的演变作为传统医学知识制度化历史上的一个独特时刻，通过在国家和全球范围内的合作来“保存”传统医学知识。近距离观察，参与和描述，调查的民族志模式带来了这个项目将分析不仅话语，但也可能改变阿育吠陀的身体，疾病，健康和愈合自己的方法的科学实践。