Doctoral Dissertation Research: Transmitting Diagnostic Skills in Tibetan Medicine: Embodied Practices for Indigenous Categories of Cancer

博士论文研究：传播藏医学诊断技能：本土癌症类别的具体实践

• 批准号: 1225734
• 负责人: Carol Worthman
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: Emory University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-01 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1225734&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Transmitting; Diagnostic

Emory University doctoral candidate Tawni L. Tidwell, supervised by Dr. Carol M. Worthman, will investigate biocultural understandings of how humans create and teach complex knowledge systems. The focus of the research will be on how medical knowledge and epistemologies are conceptualized, transmitted, and then enacted in practical skill. Using Tibetan medicine as a case study, she will examine how diagnosis is formally transmitted, cultivated, and clinically deployed, in this 2,000 year-old text-based, orally-instructed, and practically-implemented non-Western system. What are the learning processes and related sociocultural structure that support such a system in its enactment of diagnostic skill? What do these processes tell us about the transmission of complex knowledge systems more generally?As the first western student in Men-Tsee-Khang, the premier Tibetan medical school, Tidwell will undertake her investigation with Tibetan medical student peers, faculty, and a group of expert physicians. She will document how diagnostic skills are transmitted, cultivated and applied, with particular regard to a Tibetan medical illness category called dres-nad. The focus on dres-nad is strategic because dres-nads and biomedical cancers are the illness categories in which the Tibetan medical and western biomedical systems most closely overlap. As such, this overlap opens a space in which to elucidate the distinctive features of the two systems of diagnosis and care. Through class participant-observation, student and faculty interviews, and expert physician clinical observations, Tidwell will look at these processes, influences and methods of how situated knowledge of the body interacts with knowledge practice systems to develop skill development and further such skills toward expertise with specific regard to dres-nad. This research will provide insight into the transmission of complex systems of knowledge by illuminating medical education in a sophisticated, rigorous and systematic non-Western medical system. The study will facilitate international research collaborations and partnerships. Funding this research also supports the education of a graduate student.

埃默里大学博士候选人塔妮L。Tidwell，由Carol M.沃斯曼，将调查人类如何创造和教授复杂的知识系统的生物文化的理解。研究的重点将是医学知识和认识论是如何概念化，传输，然后制定在实践技能。 她将以藏医学为例，研究诊断是如何在这个有着2,000年历史的、基于文本的、口头指导的、实际实施的非西方系统中正式传播、培养和临床部署的。什么是学习过程和相关的社会文化结构，支持这样一个系统，在其制定的诊断技能？关于复杂知识系统的传播，这些过程告诉了我们什么？作为第一位在西藏最重要的藏医学校Men-Tsee-Khang学习的西方学生，Tidwell将与藏医学生、教师和一群专家医生一起进行调查。她将记录诊断技能是如何传播、培养和应用的，特别是关于一种名为dres-nad的藏医疾病类别。 对藏医药的关注是战略性的，因为藏医药和生物医学癌症是藏医药和西方生物医学系统最密切重叠的疾病类别。 因此，这种重叠打开了一个空间，在其中阐明诊断和护理的两个系统的显着特点。 通过课堂参与者观察，学生和教师访谈，以及专家医生的临床观察，Tidwell将研究这些过程，影响和身体知识如何与知识实践系统相互作用的方法，以发展技能发展，并进一步将这些技能推向专门知识，特别是关于dress-nad。这项研究将提供深入了解知识的复杂系统的传输，照亮了在一个复杂的，严格的和系统的非西方医学系统的医学教育。这项研究将促进国际研究合作和伙伴关系。资助这项研究也支持研究生的教育。