Dissertation Research: EunJeong Ma: The Herbal Medicine Cabinet -- Controversies Between Western-trained Pharmacists and Oriental Medicine Practitioners in South Korea

这项科学和技术研究论文改进补助金要求博士费用。康奈尔大学论文水平的学生在韩国进行采访和参与者观察。本论文是一项研究的争议之间的医生在韩国的西方和传统医学的权利，以处方草药。自从世纪末，当西方医学（WM）被引入韩国，东方医学（OM）从业者和西方药剂师一直在争夺处方草药的权利。 双方的冲突在1993年升级，当时《药事法》中一项规范西方药店传统类型草药柜的法律的条款被废除。 草药柜包含一个药物库存，用于组织，分类和存储OM的草药成分，其设计和组织也象征着OM传统的元素。拟议的研究将追溯争议的发展和演变，并将重点放在草药柜，这是一个有争议的边界对象位于两个专业之间。 OM的支持者认为，传统知识是建立在草药柜，并在西方药房的药柜的位置是与这些知识不可分割的。 相比之下，WM的支持者强调可验证性，并将现代医学科学视为验证和适当选择OM实践的基础。 鉴于这种情况，拟议的实地研究将侧重于草药柜在药房、医院和传统草药环境中的不同用途和意义。 实地研究还将比较OM和WM从业者如何诊断和治疗疾病，与患者互动，成功的原因。和失败想象身体。 运用科学技术研究领域的不可分割性等关键概念，本文将内阁视为一个物质和象征性的对象，在争端的主要当事人之间占据了一个认识和文化界面。双方之间的纠纷提出了许多有趣的问题，如医疗政策、公共卫生问题和专业管辖权，其中一些是韩国独有的。研究方法结合民族志研究在一家医院，实践西方和东方医学，沿着与流行和档案资料的文献分析。韩国的案例将阐明冲突各方的立场是如何不同的，例如，药箱是否提供了共同文化的一个点，或不可分割的知识之间的边界。 知识价值的两个广泛来源是，第一，一个有趣的，并在一定程度上独特的，涉及两种医学传统的争议的案例历史的实质性价值，第二，一个具体案例的核心S TS主题规范的概念价值：不可分割性，边界对象，贸易区，边界工作。这项研究将在公共卫生政策领域产生更广泛的影响。传统和西方的医疗体系在今天的许多国家文化中共存（偶尔）冲突，包括美国。 这项研究将提供详细的洞察韩国政策的影响，旨在促进传统的治疗系统和西医，这种洞察力可能会被证明是有用的研究类似的关系在其他地区。

This Science and Technology Studies Dissertation Improvement Grant requests expenses by a Ph.D. thesis level student at Cornell University to conduct interviews and participant observations in Korea. The dissertation is a study of a controversy between practitioners of Western and traditional medicine in Korea over the right to prescribe herbal remedies. Ever since the late 19th century, when Western medicine (WM) was introduced in Korea, Oriental Medicine (OM) practitioners and Western pharmacists have struggled over the right to prescribe herbal medicines. The conflict between the two parties escalated in 1993, when a legal clause in the Pharmaceutical Law governing the traditional type of herbal medicine cabinet at Western pharmacies was repealed. The herbal medicine cabinet contains a drug inventory that is used to organize, categorize, and store herbal ingredients for OM, and its design and organization also symbolize elements of OM tradition. The proposed research will trace the development and evolution of the controversy, and will focus on the herbal medicine cabinet, which was a contested boundary object located between the two professions. OM proponents contend that traditional knowledge is built into the herbal medicine cabinet, and that the placement of the medicine cabinet in a Western pharmacy is incommensurable with such knowledge. In contrast, WM proponents emphasize commensurability, and view modern medical science as a basis for validating and appropriating selected OM practices. Given this situation, the proposed field research will focus on the diverse uses and meanings of the herbal medicine cabinet when used in pharmacies, at hospitals and in the context of traditional herbal medicine. The field research also will compare how OM and WM practitioners diagnose and treat diseases, interact with patients, account for success. and failure. And conceive of the body. Using key concepts such as incommensurability from the Science & Technology Studies field, the dissertation treats the cabinet as a material and symbolic object that occupies an epistemic and cultural interface between the main parties in the dispute. The disputes between the parties raised many interesting questions about medical policies, public health issues, and professional jurisdiction rights, some of which were unique to Korea. The method of study combines ethnographic research at a hospital that practices both Western and Oriental Medicine, along with documentary analysis of popular and archival sources. The Korean case will elucidate how parties to the conflict differ in their positions about whether, for example, the medicine cabinet provides a point of common culture, or a boundary between incommensurable knowledges. Two broad sources of intellectual merit are, first, the substantive value of an interesting, and to some extent unique, case history of a controversy involving two medical traditions, and, second, a the conceptual value of a case-specific specification of core S&TS themes: incommensurability, boundary-object, trading zone, and boundary-work. The broader impact of the study will be in the area of public health policies. Traditional and Western medical systems co-exist (and occasionally) conflict in many national cultures today, including the US. The study will furnish detailed insight into the impact of Korean policies aiming to promote both traditional healing systems and Western medicine, and such insight may prove useful for studies of similar relationships in other regions.