Doctoral Dissertation Research: Taking Measure of Conversion Therapy Outcomes

博士论文研究：衡量转化治疗结果

• 批准号: 0823396
• 负责人: Mary Blair-Loy
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-15 至 2010-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0823396&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Taking; Measure

This dissertation research, supported by the Science, Technology & Society program at NSF, will examine how scientific evidence and credibility have been interpreted in the debate over conversion therapies. This project uses innovative research techniques and interpretive approaches to identify "hierarchies of evidence" within debates over reparative therapies, the factors shaping these hierarchies, and the consequences for diagnostic technologies and subjectivities. This research will employ interviews with scientists and other key actors in this debate over treatment efficacy in the United States from the 1950s to the present. Additional data will come from observation at scientific conferences and content analyses of scientific literature on this issue. To more clearly understand how contingencies have shaped evidence hierarchies, the work employs a comparison between a "pathology era" (1950-1973) of medicalization and a "normal era" (1973-present) following de-medicalization. Drawing on interdisciplinary literature in science and technology studies (STS), the sociology of social movements, and sexuality studies, the project will historicize these research practices by carefully examining the role of various influences on the credibility of evidence. Using a co-construction analytical approach, the research will show how diagnostic technologies and subjectivities have been mutually shaped in the process of research. Most notably, the work will identify and interpret the deployment of "truthing" technologies. Through this historical comparison, the research will show how professional struggles and political and religious activism have affected the credibility of truthing techniques relative to self-reports. This dissertation research stands to make important contributions to STS literature by examining a debate that is often coded as purely ideological, but that has significant connections to debates within science and corresponding technical developments.

本论文的研究，在NSF的科学，技术社会计划的支持下，将研究如何在转换疗法的辩论中解释科学证据和可信度。 该项目使用创新的研究技术和解释方法，以确定“证据的层次结构”的辩论中修复疗法，这些层次结构的形成因素，以及诊断技术和主观性的后果。 这项研究将采用与科学家和其他关键参与者在这场辩论的治疗效果在美国从20世纪50年代到现在的采访。 更多的数据将来自科学会议的观察和对有关这一问题的科学文献的内容分析。为了更清楚地理解偶然事件如何塑造证据层次，这项工作采用了医疗化的“病理时代”（1950-1973年）和非医疗化之后的“正常时代”（1973年至今）之间的比较。 该项目利用科学技术研究（STS）、社会运动社会学和性研究的跨学科文献，通过仔细研究各种影响对证据可信度的作用，将这些研究实践历史化。 本研究将透过一个共同建构的分析方法，展示诊断技术与主体性在研究过程中是如何相互塑造的。 最值得注意的是，这项工作将确定和解释“真相”技术的部署。 通过这种历史比较，研究将显示专业斗争和政治和宗教活动如何影响相对于自我报告的真实技术的可信度。 本论文的研究站在STS文学作出重要贡献，通过研究的辩论，往往是编码为纯粹的意识形态，但有显着的连接，在科学和相应的技术发展的辩论。