Urquiza-Haas Nayeli, Cloatre Emilie
Law, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
Law, University of Kent, UK.
Griffith Law Rev. 2023 Aug 26;32(2):236-258. doi: 10.1080/10383441.2023.2249708. eCollection 2023.
This article explores how traditional healing is regulated in the island of Mauritius. Drawing on postcolonial Science and Technology Studies and their encounter with socio-legal studies, it maps the emergence of the , pointing out the selectivity of the notion of 'tradition' and its entanglement to broader nation-making processes, born in the process of its independence from Britain. While the social and political histories embedded in the text of the law favour the authorisation of some healing traditions and not others, outside its scope, other practices persist, and triggering competing visions about the island's healing futures. By bringing into the frame the plurality of Mauritius's healing landscape, where different traditions coexist despite their ambiguous legal status, this article accounts for the tensions in the regulation of traditional medicine, where the law produces its own inclusions and exclusions, and mundane legalities of everyday healing become sites of broader political questioning about the relationship between law, science, and nation-making.
本文探讨了毛里求斯岛对传统疗法的管理方式。借助后殖民科学技术研究及其与社会法律研究的交汇，它勾勒出了[此处原文似乎有缺失内容]的出现，指出了“传统”概念的选择性及其与更广泛的国家建设进程的纠缠，这一进程始于其从英国独立的过程。虽然法律文本中所蕴含的社会和政治历史有利于某些疗法传统的合法化而非其他传统，但在其范围之外，其他疗法仍在持续，并引发了关于该岛疗法未来的不同愿景。通过将毛里求斯多元的疗法格局纳入框架，其中不同传统尽管法律地位模糊却仍共存，本文阐述了传统医学管理中的紧张关系，即法律产生了自身的纳入与排除，而日常疗法的世俗合法性成为了关于法律、科学与国家建设之间关系的更广泛政治质疑的场所。
