Randomized Controlled Crime: Postcolonial Sciences in Alternative Medicine Research Export

@article{citeulike:3946284, abstract = {The ambiguous terrain of fact-making' in biomedical clinical research is explored by way of an investigation of the criminalization of Tibetan medicine and Tibetan medical practitioners who participate in the global pharmaceutical pursuit of new medical products. Transcultural encounters between biomedical research interests and Tibetan medical practitioners suggest the production of awkward alliances between the state, markets, and measures of medical efficacy on an uneven global playing field. Moving beyond the possibility that a postcolonial science will be inherently hybrid, this paper seeks to uncover the inequalities of such hybrid-making encounters. When medical facts' must be derived from magical beliefs' in the centres of biomedical science, the state often intervenes to criminalize practitioners of alternative medicine. But, when profits are to be made on the fact that the magical' sells in alternative medicine, the state also makes it possible to shift ownership of medical knowledge, sometimes by way of the randomized controlled trial and the pursuit of active ingredients. The possibility of relocating the label of crime' is explored in this paper by way of an inquiry into processes that enable this shift in ownership, and a relocation of what constitutes medical fact' versus belief'. 10.1177/030631270203200503}, author = {Adams, Vincanne}, citeulike-article-id = {3946284}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030631270203200503}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://sss.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/32/5-6/659}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/030631270203200503}, journal = {Social Studies of Science}, keywords = {amr, mra, mra-ref}, month = {December}, number = {5-6}, pages = {659--690}, posted-at = {2009-01-28 09:35:58}, priority = {2}, title = {Randomized Controlled Crime: Postcolonial Sciences in Alternative Medicine Research}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030631270203200503}, volume = {32}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3946284 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3946284 N2 - The ambiguous terrain of fact-making' in biomedical clinical research is explored by way of an investigation of the criminalization of Tibetan medicine and Tibetan medical practitioners who participate in the global pharmaceutical pursuit of new medical products. Transcultural encounters between biomedical research interests and Tibetan medical practitioners suggest the production of awkward alliances between the state, markets, and measures of medical efficacy on an uneven global playing field. Moving beyond the possibility that a postcolonial science will be inherently hybrid, this paper seeks to uncover the inequalities of such hybrid-making encounters. When medical facts' must be derived from magical beliefs' in the centres of biomedical science, the state often intervenes to criminalize practitioners of alternative medicine. But, when profits are to be made on the fact that the magical' sells in alternative medicine, the state also makes it possible to shift ownership of medical knowledge, sometimes by way of the randomized controlled trial and the pursuit of active ingredients. The possibility of relocating the label of crime' is explored in this paper by way of an inquiry into processes that enable this shift in ownership, and a relocation of what constitutes medical fact' versus belief'. 10.1177/030631270203200503 IS - 5-6 JF - Social Studies of Science EP - 690 TI - Randomized Controlled Crime: Postcolonial Sciences in Alternative Medicine Research VL - 32 SP - 659 KW - amr KW - mra KW - mra-ref AU - Adams, Vincanne PY - 2002/12/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030631270203200503 ER -