NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI) for FY 2013 in Australia

这项行动资助埃默里大学的霍华德邱在2013年夏天在澳大利亚墨尔本的莫纳什大学进行一个社会、行为和经济科学领域的研究项目。 该项目的标题是“调查西方生物医学文化如何从关注个人转变为关注澳大利亚的团队”。“主持人是Lenore Manderson博士。西方生物医学正在迅速变化--从强调个人护理者自主性的旧模式转向跨学科团队。该项目构建了一个比较民族志的医生和护士在一个团队为基础的护理模式在澳大利亚和美国实施。通过民族志参与观察和深入访谈的接地分析，这种新的强调地方等级制度，护士-医生关系，和医疗权威的影响可以开始被确定。这些数据将医院单位的小团体动态与医院和生物医学的更大机构联系起来，进一步加深了我们对生物医学作为官僚机构和机构的认识。这些知识将有助于扩展生物医学社会学结构的理论，并最终将生物医学作为一种复杂的国际人类现象告知人类学。EAPSI奖学金的更广泛的影响包括为研究员提供美国以外的第一手研究经验;介绍各自所在地的科学，科学政策和科学基础设施;以及社会，文化和语言的方向。 这些活动符合NSF的目标，即在科学家，工程师和教育工作者的职业生涯早期进行国际合作教育，从而确保具有全球意识的美国科学工作者。 此外，该项目将成为博士论文的一个重要组成部分，该论文将通过出版物或在学术会议上发表，传播给包括人类学家和决策者在内的各种受众。研究员还将组织一个为期半天的关于医院作为机构的人类学研讨会，促进本地和国际合作，并参加莫纳什大学和沃里克大学（英国）与来自多个学科的学生和研究人员的电话会议。最后，项目计划包括重点小组与研究知情人讨论初步调查结果，增加与当地非学术界的接触。

This action funds Howard Chiou of Emory University to conduct a research project in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences area during the summer of 2013 at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. The project title is "Investigating How Cultures of Western Biomedicine are Changing from a Focus on Individuals to Teams in Australia." The host scientist is Dr. Lenore Manderson.Western biomedicine is rapidly changing--shifting from older models that emphasize the autonomy of individual caregivers towards interdisciplinary teams. This project constructs a comparative ethnography of physicians and nurses working within a team-based care model implemented in both Australia and the United States. Through grounded analyses of ethnographic participant observation and in-depth interviews, the effects of this new emphasis on local hierarchies, nurse-physician relationships, and medical authority can begin to be determined. This data connects small group dynamics on a hospital unit with the greater institutions of the hospital and biomedicine, furthering our knowledge of biomedicine as both bureaucracy and institution. This knowledge will help expand theory on the sociological structure of biomedicine, and ultimately inform the anthropology of biomedicine as a complex and international human phenomenon. Broader impacts of an EAPSI fellowship include providing the Fellow a first-hand research experience outside the U.S.; an introduction to the science, science policy, and scientific infrastructure of the respective location; and an orientation to the society, culture and language. These activities meet the NSF goal to educate for international collaborations early in the career of its scientists, engineers, and educators, thus ensuring a globally aware U.S. scientific workforce. Furthermore, this project will form an important component of a doctoral thesis that will be disseminated to a variety of audiences, including both anthropologists and policymakers, through publication or presentation at academic conferences. The Fellow will also organize a half-day symposium on the anthropology of hospitals as institutions, facilitating both local and international collaborations on the topic, and also participate in teleconferences at both Monash University and University of Warwick (UK) with students and researchers from multiple disciplines. Finally, the project plan includes focus groups to discuss initial findings with research informants, increasing engagement with local non-academic communities.