用普通话,英语单词\'nature\'在科学中翻译为\'ziran\'(zrán),生物医学和日常生活。同时,ziran索引了第二组较旧的含义,这些含义在英语中几乎没有直接意义。目前在许多中国医学实践以及中国古典哲学中,这些包括“自发的”或“让自我的性格展开”。在本文中,我们探讨了特定的台湾中医师如何将这两个意义家族联系起来,因为他们描述了他们如何在日常专业实践中协商生物医学与中医之间的关系。同时,受人类学相关逻辑转换写作的启发,后殖民研究和后殖民STS,我们利用“图案化艺术”(biànzhèng)来了解这些帐户中如何指定ziran与自然的关系。图案化是指定导致健康不良的移位布置和未对准的艺术。将此视为一种思考生物医学与中医之间与ziran相关的重叠的方式,我们表明,图案不是关注“外面”的物体,而是关注外表(香,xiàng)。因此,作为STS艺术术语使用,它改变了调查的认识论基础,因为案例故事不再揭示潜在的机制,而是叙述有图案的外表。这意味着任何特定的模式诊断都与一系列替代方案并存,这些替代方案可能同样值得思考。在参照学术惯例规定的范围内,因此,我们在本文中通过抵制使用单一的分析框架来尝试后殖民shi()变形的STS,而是将不同形式的图案彼此并排设置。
In Mandarin, the English word \'nature\' translates as \'ziran\' (zìrán) in science, biomedicine and everyday life. At the same time, ziran indexes a second older set of meanings that make little immediate sense in English. Current in many Chinese medical practices as well as in classical Chinese philosophy, these include \'what is spontaneously so\' or \'let the character of the self unfold\'. In this article we explore how these two families of meaning are related by particular Taiwanese Chinese medical practitioners as they describe how they negotiate the relations between biomedicine and Chinese medicine in daily professional practice. At the same time, inspired by related logic-shifting writing in anthropology, postcolonial studies and postcolonial STS, we draw on the \'art of
patterning\' ( biàn zhèng) to understand how ziran-nature relations are specified in those accounts.
Patterning is the art of specifying the shifting arrangements and misalignments that lead to ill health. Treating this as a way of thinking about ziran-related overlaps between biomedicine and Chinese medicine, we show that
patterning attends not to objects \'out there\' but to appearances (xiang, xiàng). Put into use as an STS term of art it therefore shifts the epistemological basis of inquiry because
case-stories no longer reveal underlying mechanisms, but instead narrate patterned appearances. One implication of this is that any particular pattern diagnosis lies alongside a galaxy of alternatives that might be equally good to think with. Within the limits set by referential academic conventions, we thus attempt a postcolonial shi ()-inflected STS in this paper by resisting the use of a single analytical framework, instead setting different forms of
patterning alongside one another.