“地方性场所”的实验室化过程——以中国集体化时期的麻风防疫史为例

How “Locales” Become Laboratories:Case from the History of Leprosy Prevention in Chinese Collectivization Period

实验室研究在STS领域有着悠久的传统。但四十年过去了,中国的学术界仅在世纪之交前后大规模译介、小规模践行了实验室研究的丰硕成果。通过澄清实验室研究"对称性"打开"黑箱"的本质发现,实验室研究学者在经济金融基础设施以及医疗实践多重本体的转向不但没有跳脱出上述两条原则,而且使实验室研究焕发出新的生命力。结合中国集体化时期的麻风防疫史,研究还证明了将后实验室时代的研究视角应用于探究中国问题的可能性。实际上,在狭义的实验室以外探究事实和科学意义建构的广阔天地仍大有作为。

Laboratory studies have long history in STS. In the past forty years,however,Chinese STS scholars only translated the classical pieces in large scale while implemented only little empirical research. "Symmetrically"opening the "black-box"is proved to be the essential program of laboratory studies,which didn’t change much,even after the infrastructure turn in finical and economical organization research,or the multi-ontology turn in medical practice studies. To the contrary,the traditional of laboratory studies are empowered with new vitalities. Possibilities on employing the perspectives from post-laboratory studies to explore China issues was also demonstrated by reinterpreting the history of leprosy prevention in the collectivization period.Turn out the co-productions of fact-making and sense-making beyond the laboratory in the narrow sense,still has plenty of chances.