Jia-Shin Chen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 292338 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jia-Shin Chen |
| NOMBRES | Jia-Shin |
| APELLIDO | Chen |
| FIRMA | CHEN J |
| AFILIACIONES | National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8521-677X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Keep Cooking, Keep Sharing
As a long-term reader of and contributor to this journal, I feel both honored and humbled to assume the role of Editor-in-Chief of EASTS. A sense of anticipation, accompanied by a measure of unease...
In Memory of Adele E. Clarke (1945–2024), Ever a Loved and Respected Supporter of EASTS
Situational Analysis as an Interdisciplinary Research Method
Substance use policy and practice in the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented natural experiment in drug policy, treatment delivery, and harm reduction strategies by exposing wide variation in public health infrastructures and social safety nets around the world. Using qualitative data including ethnographic methods, questionnaires, and semi-structured interviews with people who use drugs (PWUD) and Delphi-method with experts from field sites spanning 13 different countrie…
Neurasthenia and autonomic imbalance as minor diagnoses
A new term, autonomic imbalance (自律神經失調 or AI), which refers to a wide variety of physical and mental symptoms that are medically unexplained, has recently emerged in Taiwan. Many people compared this condition to neurasthenia, a now obsolete diagnosis. Whether neurasthenia and AI are medically the same or merely similar is a debate that is better left to clinicians; however, this article endeavours to explore the significance of the comparabilit…
Beyond black and white
Heibaika (Mandarin for black-and-white cards) are tools that Taiwanese parents use for infants below 3 months old. These cards are claimed to stimulate vision and enhance the brain. Although the scientific efficacy of heibaika is questionable, the wide circulation of these cards illustrates the ways some try to urge laypeople to imagine and picture the infant brain. Thus, the use of heibaika constitutes a good example of neuroparenting and neuroc…
What is in a name? Autonomic imbalance and medically unexplained symptoms in Taiwan
Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are persistent bodily symptoms without known pathology. An unofficial term has recently emerged in Taiwan to accommodate MUS: autonomic imbalance (AI). AI literally refers to disturbances of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) that innervates vital organs. However, AI is variously conceptualised by different parties. This study intends to investigate what is in the name of AI. It draws on available databases an…
Therapy without a prescription
Buprenorphine/naloxone (B/N) therapy is a prescription pharmacotherapy for opioid dependence. For certain health service providers, when B/N escapes supervision and diverts into the hands of people for whom it is unintended, it can pose serious risks even if it may still have therapeutic benefits. The line between therapy and diversion is thus a problematic one. By qualitatively analysing archival review and in-depth interviews, this study uses t…
Connecting the Author, the Reviewer, and the Reader
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal - Volume 13, Number 1, March 2019
Aizi zhili yu zaidi xingdong 愛滋治理與在地行動 [ Aids Governance and Local Actions ] Aizi fangzhi, falu yu yuyue de zhengzhi 愛滋防治、法律與愉悅的政治 [ HIV Prevention, Law, and the Politics of Pleasure ]
These two books belong to a series published by the Center for the Study of Sexualities at National Central University, Taiwan. They are products of conferences on cultural critiques on HIV/AIDS in
Education as networking
The harm reduction policy of Taiwan has been considered a success. However, the HIV incidence among injection drug users declined before the nationwide needle and syringe program and drug substitution treatments were implemented. Thus, other factors in the policy might have contributed to its success. Some authors have suggested that education may have played a pivotal part. In this research, the purported significance of education in the success…
Junko Kitanaka, Depression in Japan
A multitude of social, economic, and epistemic factors contribute to existing prognoses and treatments for depression (Horwitz and Wakefield 2007). Still, the processes by which depression takes fo
Revisiting early sociological studies on addiction
Addiction is a significant issue in many aspects but no explanatory closure has been attained. The overemphasis on the brain disease paradigm upheld by the National Institute on Drug Abuse may run serious risks, and the present study intends to counteract this partiality. Drawing on Ludwik Fleck’s notion of thought collectives, this article offers a close reading of the works of sociologists Bingham Dai and Alfred R. Lindesmith vis-à-vis other co…
Rethinking the East Asian Distinction
How do we make sense of East Asian STS studies? This article traces the debates on this theme in earlier issues of East Asian Science, Technology and Society and analyzes the different perspectives displayed. The author addresses the so-called East Asian distinction by proposing a theoretical approach based on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's notion of assemblages, which differs significantly from Latourian actor network theory. The concept's …
Well-written but misplaced
Beyond human rights and public health
Studying up harm reduction policy
A Brighter Side
What is in a name? Autonomic imbalance and medically unexplained symptoms in Taiwan
Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are persistent bodily symptoms without known pathology. An unofficial term has recently emerged in Taiwan to accommodate MUS: autonomic imbalance (AI). AI literally refers to disturbances of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) that innervates vital organs. However, AI is variously conceptualised by different parties. This study intends to investigate what is in the name of AI. It draws on available databases an…
Therapy without a prescription
Buprenorphine/naloxone (B/N) therapy is a prescription pharmacotherapy for opioid dependence. For certain health service providers, when B/N escapes supervision and diverts into the hands of people for whom it is unintended, it can pose serious risks even if it may still have therapeutic benefits. The line between therapy and diversion is thus a problematic one. By qualitatively analysing archival review and in-depth interviews, this study uses t…
Revisiting early sociological studies on addiction
Addiction is a significant issue in many aspects but no explanatory closure has been attained. The overemphasis on the brain disease paradigm upheld by the National Institute on Drug Abuse may run serious risks, and the present study intends to counteract this partiality. Drawing on Ludwik Fleck’s notion of thought collectives, this article offers a close reading of the works of sociologists Bingham Dai and Alfred R. Lindesmith vis-à-vis other co…
A Brighter Side
Beyond human rights and public health
Studying up harm reduction policy
Rethinking the East Asian Distinction
How do we make sense of East Asian STS studies? This article traces the debates on this theme in earlier issues of East Asian Science, Technology and Society and analyzes the different perspectives displayed. The author addresses the so-called East Asian distinction by proposing a theoretical approach based on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's notion of assemblages, which differs significantly from Latourian actor network theory. The concept's …
Well-written but misplaced
Junko Kitanaka, Depression in Japan
A multitude of social, economic, and epistemic factors contribute to existing prognoses and treatments for depression (Horwitz and Wakefield 2007). Still, the processes by which depression takes fo
Revisiting early sociological studies on addiction
Addiction is a significant issue in many aspects but no explanatory closure has been attained. The overemphasis on the brain disease paradigm upheld by the National Institute on Drug Abuse may run serious risks, and the present study intends to counteract this partiality. Drawing on Ludwik Fleck’s notion of thought collectives, this article offers a close reading of the works of sociologists Bingham Dai and Alfred R. Lindesmith vis-à-vis other co…
Education as networking
The harm reduction policy of Taiwan has been considered a success. However, the HIV incidence among injection drug users declined before the nationwide needle and syringe program and drug substitution treatments were implemented. Thus, other factors in the policy might have contributed to its success. Some authors have suggested that education may have played a pivotal part. In this research, the purported significance of education in the success…
Aizi zhili yu zaidi xingdong 愛滋治理與在地行動 [ Aids Governance and Local Actions ] Aizi fangzhi, falu yu yuyue de zhengzhi 愛滋防治、法律與愉悅的政治 [ HIV Prevention, Law, and the Politics of Pleasure ]
These two books belong to a series published by the Center for the Study of Sexualities at National Central University, Taiwan. They are products of conferences on cultural critiques on HIV/AIDS in
Connecting the Author, the Reviewer, and the Reader
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal - Volume 13, Number 1, March 2019
Therapy without a prescription
Buprenorphine/naloxone (B/N) therapy is a prescription pharmacotherapy for opioid dependence. For certain health service providers, when B/N escapes supervision and diverts into the hands of people for whom it is unintended, it can pose serious risks even if it may still have therapeutic benefits. The line between therapy and diversion is thus a problematic one. By qualitatively analysing archival review and in-depth interviews, this study uses t…
Beyond black and white
Heibaika (Mandarin for black-and-white cards) are tools that Taiwanese parents use for infants below 3 months old. These cards are claimed to stimulate vision and enhance the brain. Although the scientific efficacy of heibaika is questionable, the wide circulation of these cards illustrates the ways some try to urge laypeople to imagine and picture the infant brain. Thus, the use of heibaika constitutes a good example of neuroparenting and neuroc…
What is in a name? Autonomic imbalance and medically unexplained symptoms in Taiwan
Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are persistent bodily symptoms without known pathology. An unofficial term has recently emerged in Taiwan to accommodate MUS: autonomic imbalance (AI). AI literally refers to disturbances of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) that innervates vital organs. However, AI is variously conceptualised by different parties. This study intends to investigate what is in the name of AI. It draws on available databases an…
Situational Analysis as an Interdisciplinary Research Method
Substance use policy and practice in the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented natural experiment in drug policy, treatment delivery, and harm reduction strategies by exposing wide variation in public health infrastructures and social safety nets around the world. Using qualitative data including ethnographic methods, questionnaires, and semi-structured interviews with people who use drugs (PWUD) and Delphi-method with experts from field sites spanning 13 different countrie…
Neurasthenia and autonomic imbalance as minor diagnoses
A new term, autonomic imbalance (自律神經失調 or AI), which refers to a wide variety of physical and mental symptoms that are medically unexplained, has recently emerged in Taiwan. Many people compared this condition to neurasthenia, a now obsolete diagnosis. Whether neurasthenia and AI are medically the same or merely similar is a debate that is better left to clinicians; however, this article endeavours to explore the significance of the comparabilit…
In Memory of Adele E. Clarke (1945–2024), Ever a Loved and Respected Supporter of EASTS
Keep Cooking, Keep Sharing
As a long-term reader of and contributor to this journal, I feel both honored and humbled to assume the role of Editor-in-Chief of EASTS. A sense of anticipation, accompanied by a measure of unease...
Political science (11 obras) · Psychology (11 obras) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (8 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Medicine (8 obras) · Psychiatry (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Epistemology (5 obras) · Harm (5 obras)