Chinese Healing and the United States: 1849-2004

中国疗法与美国：1849-2004

• 批准号: 7143773
• 负责人: Linda L. Barnes
• 金额: $ 8.01万
• 依托单位: BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-15 至 2009-09-14
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7143773
• 关键词: China; clinical research; medicine

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is to obtain funding for three years to produce an illustrated scholarly book manuscript on the social history of Chinese healing practices in the United States from 1849 to 2004. This project will build on the Pi's foundational book Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848 (Harvard University, 2005); on her scholarship in anthropology and religious studies on contemporary forms of Chinese healing in the U.S.; and on a close-to-completed literature review for the proposed project. Histories of American medicine rarely include medicine traditions introduced by non-Europeans. The history of Chinese medicine and healing practices in the U.S., for example, remains under-studied. This book will provide the first comprehensive study of Chinese healing in the U.S. beginning in 1849, the first year of large-scale Chinese immigration to the U.S. The project is national in scope, with selected local sites providing nuanced pictures of different Chinese healing practices throughout the U.S. The hypothesis is that attitudes and values embodied in theories and practices of healing cast light on societal priorities and positions regarding the body, race, gender, class, illness, and health. Using archival materials, other primary and secondary sources, interviews, and fieldwork data, this historical and anthropological project addresses the following specific aims: 1) to identify key political, economic, and technological developments in China and the U.S. and between the two countries, that influenced how and why particular Chinese healing practices entered the U.S.; 2) to study representative sites throughout the U.S. where specific Chinese healing practices were introduced from 1849 through 2004, together with data related to these practices; 3) to identify key variables in the histories a) of Chinese medicine, other healing practices, and biomedicine in China, and b) of Western biomedicine and vitalism in the U.S. that informed not only the versions of Chinese practices entering the U.S., but also how such practices were perceived and received; 4) to explicate how changing theories of race affected how Chinese identity was constructed, and how such constructions have influenced American perceptions of, and responses to, Chinese healing practices; 5) to draw on scholarship in American religious history to show how changes in religious through, social practice, and pluralism, have contributed to perceptions of, and responses to, Chinese healing practices; 6) to compare and contrast how practices introduced in different U.S. contexts have been adapted and/or acculturated to these settings, by whom, and with what concerns. The importance of the project resides both in its content, and its interdisciplinary methodology.

描述(由申请人提供)： 这项申请是为了获得为期三年的资金，以制作一本关于1849年至2004年中国在美国的治疗实践的社会史的插图学术书籍手稿。这个项目将建立在国际医学会的基础著作《针、草、神和鬼：中国，治疗，和1848年的西方》(哈佛大学，2005年)的基础上，基于她在人类学和宗教研究方面关于当代中国治疗在美国的形式的学术知识，以及对拟议项目的接近完成的文献综述。美国医学史很少包括非欧洲人引进的医学传统。例如，中国在美国的医学史和治疗实践仍处于研究阶段。这本书将提供从1849年开始在美国进行的关于中国治疗的第一次全面研究。这是中国人大规模移民到美国的第一年。该项目的范围是全国性的，精选的地方遗址提供了美国各地不同的中国治疗实践的细微差别图片。假设是，治疗理论和实践中体现的态度和价值观揭示了关于身体、种族、性别、阶级、疾病和健康的社会优先事项和立场。使用档案材料、其他一手和二手资料、访谈和田野调查数据，这个历史和人类学项目致力于以下具体目标：1)确定中国和美国以及两国之间的关键政治、经济和技术发展，这些发展影响了特定的中国治疗实践进入美国的方式和原因；2)研究从1849年到2004年引入特定中国治疗实践的美国有代表性的地点，以及与这些实践相关的数据；3)找出中国的中医、其他治疗方法和生物医学的历史中的关键变量，以及b)美国的西方生物医学和生命论的历史，这些变量不仅影响了 中国人进入美国的做法，以及人们如何看待和接受这些做法；4) 解释不断变化的种族理论如何影响中国人的认同感是如何构建的，以及这种影响是如何 本研究的目的是：1)了解中国的医疗实践如何影响美国人对中国医疗实践的看法和反应；5)借鉴美国宗教史上的学术研究成果，展示宗教、社会实践和多元化的变化如何促进人们对中国医疗实践的认知和反应；6)比较和比较在不同的美国背景下引入的实践是如何适应和/或适应这些环境、由谁以及出于什么考虑而适应和/或适应这些环境的。该项目的重要性既在于其内容，也在于其跨学科方法。