醫療範疇、類別與汙名
主持人:吳嘉苓(國立臺灣大學社會學系 教授)
關於口腔癌:政府沒說清楚的事張育銓(國立臺東大學公共與文化事務學系 副教授) 其實,我的研究對象是荖葉,荖葉經常和檳榔包裹在一起,而檳榔又容易和口腔癌聯想在一起,為了處理荖葉的去污名化,不得不面對檳榔,也就需要面對口腔癌。資料整理過程中發現,公衛體系對於口腔癌帶有一種對檳榔的偏執,甚至刻意忽略其他口腔癌的致病因子,讓社會大眾一方面誤解與敵視檳榔,另一方面暴露在口腔癌的多元致病因子威脅中。 關鍵字:檳榔、口腔癌、公共衛生、FM2.5、鉻、鎳 |
親密他者:新冠肺炎疫情下返台者的居家檢疫經驗曾凡慈(中研院社會所 助研究員) 2020年可謂新冠肺炎的大疫之年。迄今,台灣仍能維持相對低的確診與死亡率,政府自SARS時期借鑒而來的嚴格居家檢疫制度,可謂扮演重要角色。由於相關資訊始終未曾公開,我們只能由指揮中心於今年農曆春節前公佈的「年前回顧」,看到在新冠肺炎期間經歷過機場採檢、居家檢疫與居家隔離的總人數將近六十萬人。 關鍵字:新冠肺炎、居家檢疫、他者性、污名、畫界 |
Racial Terms in Biomedical Research on Populations in Taiwan: The Case of Journal of the Formosan Medical AssociationJoel Stocker 石明人(國立成功大學醫學系暨醫學、科技與社會研究中心 副教授) Despite a great deal of confusion surrounding the meaning and utility of racial and ethnic categories in medical scholarship in the 21st century (Reardon, 2004), “race still yields tremendous influence on medical research and clinical practice” (Fofana, 2013, p. 1). Biomedical studies of human populations produce and communicate knowledge of supposed racial or ethnic differences, yet “the issue of population descriptors has not attracted enough academic attention outside North America and Europe” (Takezawa et al., 2014). In this paper, in order to provide a detailed understanding of how race and ethnicity have been defined and applied in biomedical research in Taiwan over time, I analyzed original medical research articles published in English from the 1960s to the 2020 in a major medical journal published in Taiwan: the Journal of the Formosan Medical Association. A literature search was performed using Embase, Medline, and SCOPUS databases. Quantitative analysis software ATLAS.ti ver. 9x (ATLAS.ti Scientific Software Development GmbH) was then used for textual analysis, to code the terms, group the codes into further analytical themes and categories, and analyze them by research article sections to look for shifts in term-usage from section to section, year-to-year, field or subfield of study, populations studied, methodological approaches, and research organizations and author affiliations and networks. In some areas of medical research, a shift has occurred from typological notions of race to statistical notions of difference among populations that are still made in racialized terms. I will discuss how this shift is reflected in some Taiwanese medical research articles, and whether doctors producing, for instance, patient case studies, show, or not, in their writing. 關鍵字:race, ethnicity, medical research articles, Taiwan medical journals |