Technology and Alternative Cancer Therapies

An Analysis of Heterodoxy and Constructivism

Bibliographic Data

ID2478468
AuthorsDavid J He (0000-0001-8117-0260)
Year1996
Volume10
Issue4
Pages657-674
Publication date1996-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedical Anthropology Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0745-5194 • E-ISSN: 1548-1387
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/maq.1996.10.4.02a00140
PMID8979243
OpenAlexW2092935615
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited22

Theories of the construction of technology are reviewed from the wider interdisciplinary conversation known as science and technology studies (STS) and from the growing field of the anthropology of science and technology. These theories are used to contribute to research situated at the intersection of the anthropology of alternative medicine and of medical technologies. Cases drawn from the research tradition on microbial theories of cancer are considered to show how unorthodox medical theories become embedded in technologies through choices in microscope design and treatment technologies. In turn, the technologies contribute to the heterodox standing of the researchers, their research, and their therapies

Constructivism (international relations · Conversation · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Health care · Health technology · Heterodoxy · Orthodoxy · Political science · Situated · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Race, Genetics, and Society · Science Education and Perceptions · Philosophy

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