%0 Journal Article
%T A Cultural and Linguistic Translation of Warm Factor Epidemics Wenbing as Seasonal Viral Influenza Epidemics in Australia
%A Rey Tiquia
%J E£¿ : Revista de Humanidades M¨¦dicas & Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnolog¨ªa
%D 2010
%I 
%X A new understanding of science as a knowledge system is emerging. In place of universalizing theories, there is recognition of locatedness and situatednss as characteristics of scientific knowledge. This has a bearing on the relationship between traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Western biomedicine. Both are generated in located and situated clinical practices. Clinical space can thus be seen as a platform upon which TCM and Western biomedicine can engage in mutual translation. Bruno Latour refers to ¡®translation¡¯ as ¡®the interpretation given by fact-builders of their interests and those of the people they enrol.¡¯ This offers the possibility of a local and situated interpretation of other knowledge systems including TCM. Using this methodology, I translate into terms of wenbing influenza the viral epidemics of Western biomedicine.
%K Translation
%K Warm factor epidemic
%K Wenbing
%K viral influenza
%K Chinese medicine
%K Western biomedicine
%U http://www.ea-journal.com/art2.1/A-Cultural-and-Linguistic-Translation.pdf