Compare Scientific And Medical Practices That Seek To Establishing Truth Through Evidence
Compare scientific or medical practices that seek to establish truth through evidence in two different readings. How do participants define “success” and what kinds of challenges do they face in making sure their practices are successful? Do experiments or demonstrations mean different things for practitioners and their audiences? In particular, you might focus comparisons involving Lewis’s “Between Public Assertion and Private Doubt,” Collins’s
“Public Experiments and Displays of Virtuosity,” and Naraindas’s “Of Spineless
Babies.”
In this paper, I explore the fields of scientific experimentation, biomedicine and Ayurvedic medicine and their pursuits of establishing truth through evidence. I draw from Collin's 'Public Experiments and Displays …show more content…
Although the participants (scientists) were able to conclude that the Anti-Misting-Kerosine test was a success given the catastrophic nature of the crash, laymen who were uninitiated in this field assessed the crash by their own intuitive lay metrics such as odds of survival or the size of the fireball instead of weight-adjusting their judgement according to the unfavourable factors that caused the unfolding of such a situation (Collins, 1988). This scenario of laymen misinterpreting the experiment can be problematic to participants, since it is somewhat if not equally important to meet the expectations of the public rather than just the …show more content…
Taking reference from scientific experiments, a private experiment would be synonymous to a diagnosis that is arrived at by drawing solely from Ayurvedic concepts. A public experiment would then be synonymous to the adoption of allopathy on top of an Ayurvedic diagnosis to either provide comfort to the Ayurvedic doctor or to convince the patient of its efficacy. Take for example the translation of Ayurvedic concepts into allopathic terminologies: 'pandu' being translated into anaemia or 'prameha' being translated into diabetes (Naraindas, 2006). These mappings between Ayurveda and biomedicine are unlikely to affect the process of diagnosis or prognosis; instead they serve more as an assurance to the non-committed practitioner or the unconvinced
“Public Experiments and Displays of Virtuosity,” and Naraindas’s “Of Spineless
Babies.”
In this paper, I explore the fields of scientific experimentation, biomedicine and Ayurvedic medicine and their pursuits of establishing truth through evidence. I draw from Collin's 'Public Experiments and Displays …show more content…
Although the participants (scientists) were able to conclude that the Anti-Misting-Kerosine test was a success given the catastrophic nature of the crash, laymen who were uninitiated in this field assessed the crash by their own intuitive lay metrics such as odds of survival or the size of the fireball instead of weight-adjusting their judgement according to the unfavourable factors that caused the unfolding of such a situation (Collins, 1988). This scenario of laymen misinterpreting the experiment can be problematic to participants, since it is somewhat if not equally important to meet the expectations of the public rather than just the …show more content…
Taking reference from scientific experiments, a private experiment would be synonymous to a diagnosis that is arrived at by drawing solely from Ayurvedic concepts. A public experiment would then be synonymous to the adoption of allopathy on top of an Ayurvedic diagnosis to either provide comfort to the Ayurvedic doctor or to convince the patient of its efficacy. Take for example the translation of Ayurvedic concepts into allopathic terminologies: 'pandu' being translated into anaemia or 'prameha' being translated into diabetes (Naraindas, 2006). These mappings between Ayurveda and biomedicine are unlikely to affect the process of diagnosis or prognosis; instead they serve more as an assurance to the non-committed practitioner or the unconvinced