本三年期專書計畫將透過文學與文化文本、報章與公眾論述、歷史檔案以及田野資料之分析，仔細耙梳台灣「密醫」相關的權力系譜，闡明台灣醫療現代性之下國家暴力與多重殖民歷史之間的動態權力關係。本專書以「密醫」作為醫療現代性的「閾界人物」(threshold figure) （擺盪於秘密與公開、見與不見、合法與非法之間），一方面批判性地檢視台灣醫療現代性之三方權力合流︰即（1）國家權力如何透過科學論述與公民社會之醫療專業化要求，（2）以法治理性重新定義醫療知識與實踐主體，並區隔與分類「現代」與「非現代」之專業知識，（3）進而將非正式的醫療勞動者和非正統的另類實踐變成社會、人性與道德之屈從主體。本研究將指認此一醫療現代性的另一個知識型暴力，乃鑲嵌於日本殖民主義與美國冷戰帝國主義之台灣後殖民情境中未被肯認的種族化帝國主義。此種族化之知識暴力置換了醫療人文主義與資本主義現代性的殖民無意識，以國家現代化發展作為主流的歷史敘事與道路，將另類的「密醫」醫療照護與親密關係當成不可想像的現代性歷史「祕密」或屈辱。透過此一批判性的檢視，本研究希望顯示︰醫療現代化的科學理性如何透過上述操作而成為當代生命政治的「治」與「理」：不但使得各式權力滲透至大眾的每日生活日常，同時也改變人們對於醫療文化、生命與照護的認知與情感。這樣一個權力系譜的研究，有助於當代對於種族主義、冷戰資本主義與醫療現代性的討論，且透過亞際參照與跨太平洋知識視角，亦將對理解後殖民亞洲國家的冷戰現代性歷史形構做出貢獻；這些形構所積極連結的，正是新殖民的生命治理、亞洲國家的冷戰發展敘事、連動的醫療化勞動與遷移情境、以及階序化的生命區別與再生產。 ;I am applying for a three-year book project to complete my manuscript on the politics of life and labor in Taiwan’s transpacific medical modernity. Looking at a variety of texts including literary, journalistic, archival and my own ethnographic material based on interviews and field work, Fugitive Subjects of “Mi-Yi” is a genealogical investigation of the “secret doctors” as an index figure of Taiwan’s medical modernity during different state regimes by linking the transpacific US-Taiwan Cold War relations to inter-Asia historical interconnections. I considered the “mi-yi” as a threshold figure (shuttling between legality and illegality, seeing and unseeing, modern and indigenous) to unravel how Taiwan’s colonial and medical modernity are vertically structured by multifaceted (trans-local and trans-national) histories of Japanese colonial medicine, the scientific reformulation of “modern medicine” under the KMT nationalist regime, and the U.S. Cold War involvement in Asia. Tracing the genealogies of the “mi-yi” within Taiwanese society during different regimes of power, Fugitive Subjects of “Mi-Yi” interrogates the transpacific historical conditions of Taiwan’s medical modernity as characterized by a “lack of knowledge” about Japanese colonialism and US Cold War epistemological and socio-political violence. I identify this violence as an unacknowledged racialized imperialism in the displacements that are inherent within medical humanism and capitalist modernity when the latter are mobilized for developmental historical narratives. In tracing the genealogies of the “mi-yi” figure in Taiwanese society and its politics of knowledge production, I explain how the illegality of medical practices and the hierarchical structure of production and reproduction of labor became central to Taiwan’s modernization, a process that transformed perceptions and practices about medical cultures, life, and care. My research identifies often-obscured genealogies of power, and contributes to the discussions of race, the Cold War, capitalism, medical modernity and inter-Asia referencing. This research contributes to contemporary understandings of transpacific historical formations of Cold War modernity and how these formations articulate neocolonial governance of life; Cold War developmental narratives of Asian nations; and the coordinated medicalized modernizing conditions of labor migration and hierarchical reproduction of life-in-differentiations.
