A growing body of scholarship from the fields of history, anthropology, science and technology studies, and philosophy addresses the translation of scientific epistemologies as practices between and across cultures. Nowhere is this engagement more compelling than in discussions of medicine: what it consists in, how its claims to knowledge and efficacy are validated, how it allows for innovation and at the same time advocates a consistent empirical position, and how it is configured within cultural and national imaginaries and global markets. Likewise, socio-cultural and colonial studies of medicine reveal how biomedical science - translated into a variety of clinical, technological,