证与症:食品安全中的科学与文化——以美国“中国餐馆综合证”为例  

Between Signs and Symptoms: Science and Culture in Food Safety as Seen in the "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome"

作　　者：邵京[1] 

机构地区：[1]南京大学人类学研究所

出　　处：《广西民族大学学报（哲学社会科学版）》2012年第1期41-48,共8页JOURNAL OF GUANGXI MINZU UNIVERSITY:PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE EDITION

基　　金：南京大学社会人文科学重点学科基地项目

摘　　要：食品安全意识反映的是社会迅速转型时人们对其他种种社会,伦理与政治领域里问题的担忧与体验。在食品消费方面,这种担忧与体验则更容易以躯体化形式呈现,表现为可以言表的症状。社会个体对症状的语言表述与个体间相互沟通可以生成社会群体的躯体化知识。谣言的传播正是语言运用中的这种成事性特征的体现。因此,"装病"与"假病"的界线常常很难划清。曾在美国出现的"中国餐馆综合证"就是这种躯体化知识形成过程很好的案例。对这个案例的人类学审视可以帮助人们认识其成因里的文化因素。同时,人们也必须注意到文化因素在政府监管对策中常常被忽略的作用。Food safety awareness often reveals people＇s anxieties about social,ethical and political issues taking place in a rapidly changing society.Where food is concerned,however,such anxieties produce persistent symptoms that blur the distinction between feigning and simulation,and are themselves embodiments of social,political and moral troubles in a society.Two separate phenomena,symptoms and rumors,are discussed to show how they are related in generating embodied and socially shared forms of knowledge and experience.The ＂Chinese restaurant syndrome＂ is a case in point,and the anthropological examination of this case brings together cultural forces at play.Meanwhile,it should be noted that the role of cultural factors in government regulation has often been overlooked.

关 键 词：食品安全 谷氨酸单钠 味精 中国餐馆综合证 症状 谣言 躯体化知识 

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