Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Industrial Production of Medications in France

博士论文研究：法国药品的工业生产

• 批准号: 1155996
• 负责人: Adriana Petryna
• 金额: $ 1.09万
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 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: 2012-04-01 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1155996&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Industrial; Production

IntroductionHomeopathy plays a prominent role in the consumer healthcare market in France, unlike the US where it plays a marginal role. In France, it both competes with and is complementary to biomedicine. At the center of this strategic ambiguity are the globules (small beads) of homeopathic medicines, which are made to embody this dual role. By directly observing and interviewing key actors in the industrial production of homeopathic medicines in France, this project addresses the following question. How are homeopathic remedies produced to function as both a contestation of and complement to biomedical therapies? Intellectual meritDespite its increasing market presence in France and elsewhere, including the United States, homeopathy has largely failed to garner the attention of scholars of anthropology and the social studies of science. This project will begin to fill this gap in our knowledge and shed light on the industrial dimensions of an alternative treatment regime. It will focus on the range of processes by which knowledge, technology, and politics play decisive roles in the production of a treatment commodity. The production of a homeopathic remedy entails continual material and symbolic transformation through the application of various technologies (such as agricultural, laboratory, manufacturing) and forms of expertise (such as farming, scientific, marketing, regulatory). How this production process is shaped by evidence-based research, technologies and expertise, values and ideologies, national and international regulation, and a host of uncertainties is at the core of this inquiry. It engages domains of knowledge related to the social studies of science, the anthropology of medicine and pharmaceuticals, and the anthropology and sociology of business in order to produce an integrative analytic approach.Potential broader impactsThe results of this study will provide the social sciences with a much-needed tool to expand its traditional domains to include sites whose technologies, materials and methods both mirror and diverge from those of biomedicine and rethink a category of healthcare whose identity and activities situate it both inside and outside the traditional domains of medical anthropology.

简介霍美病在法国的消费者医疗保健市场中起着重要作用，与美国发挥边缘作用不同。在法国，它既与生物医学竞争，又是互补的。这种战略性歧义的中心是顺势疗法药物的球（小珠），这些药物是为了体现这种双重作用的。通过直接观察和采访法国顺势疗法药物工业生产中的关键参与者，该项目解决了以下问题。产生的顺势疗法如何作为对生物医学疗法的竞争和补充？知识分子优异，尽管它在法国和其他地方（包括美国）的市场存在不断增长，但顺势疗法在很大程度上未能引起人类学学者和科学社会研究的关注。该项目将在我们的知识中开始填补这一空白，并阐明替代治疗方案的工业维度。它将集中于知识，技术和政治在治疗商品的生产中起决定性作用的过程范围。顺势疗法的生产需要通过应用各种技术（例如农业，实验室，制造业）和专业知识（例如农业，科学，市场营销，监管）来实现持续的材料和象征性转变。这一生产过程是如何由基于证据的研究，技术和专业知识，价值观和意识形态，国家和国际监管以及许多不确定性塑造的。 It engages domains of knowledge related to the social studies of science, the anthropology of medicine and pharmaceuticals, and the anthropology and sociology of business in order to produce an integrative analytic approach.Potential broader impactsThe results of this study will provide the social sciences with a much-needed tool to expand its traditional domains to include sites whose technologies, materials and methods both mirror and diverge from those of biomedicine and rethink a其身份和活动的医疗保健类别都在医学人类学的传统领域内部和外部。