Translating Global Health Technologies. Accounting and Testing in health care provision in Uganda and Rwanda

翻译全球健康技术。

• 批准号: 195042893
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Ulrike Beisel
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Zentrum für Geographien globaler Ungleichheiten
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Priority Programmes
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2010-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/195042893?language=en
• 关键词: Translating; Global; Health; Technologies.; Accounting

This project aims to consolidate and theoretically elaborate our research findings on how the translation of traveling global health technologies contributes to the emergence of new therapeutic agencements. Through our conceptualization of translation as a two-way process we could not only show how practices of creative adaptation affect and shape institutionalization of technologies, but also how this results in organizational learning of different scale and scope in Uganda and Rwanda. In the third and last project phase we propose to focus on accounting procedures and testing practices underlying and emerging out of processes of organizational learning. This will allow us to better capture the complex interplay between the use of technologies (e.g. rapid diagnostic tests) and medical data production (information and communication technologies). Focusing on interstitial spaces enables us to not only compare different types of organizational learning, but also to link this back to our research results of the second phase. The merging of accounting studies with approaches of the sociology of testing will provide theoretical advancement and generate new insights into the (analytical) differentiation between 'good' and 'bad' translations. This will significantly contribute to the priority programs overarching aim: clarify the role of technologies for the production of order and disorder in Africa.

本项目旨在巩固并从理论上阐述我们的研究成果，即全球旅行健康技术的翻译如何有助于新治疗方案的出现。通过我们对翻译作为一个双向过程的概念化，我们不仅可以展示创造性适应的实践如何影响和塑造技术制度化，而且还可以展示这如何导致乌干达和卢旺达不同规模和范围的组织学习。在第三个也是最后一个项目阶段，我们建议将重点放在组织学习过程中潜在的和新兴的会计程序和测试实践上。这将使我们能够更好地把握技术使用（如快速诊断测试）与医疗数据产生（信息和通信技术）之间复杂的相互作用。对间隙空间的关注使我们不仅可以比较不同类型的组织学习，还可以将其与我们第二阶段的研究结果联系起来。会计研究与测试社会学方法的合并将提供理论进步，并对“好”和“坏”翻译之间的（分析）区分产生新的见解。这将大大有助于优先方案的首要目标：澄清技术在非洲产生秩序和混乱方面的作用。