论医学的文化定位

On the Cultural Position of Medicine

医学的科技定位有其必然性和合理性。随着社会和科技的发展,也暴露出对人文精神的忽视;医学科学和人才结构的偏狭;中医西医化等问题。这些问题促使人们对医学进行更广阔更深入的研究,逐步形成医学的文化定位,作为科技定位的补充。这与当代科学文化和人文文化从分裂走向交流的趋势是合拍的,也是医学自身拓展到社会文化领域的结果。它启迪我们从文化的角度去思考医学的本质和目的,得出一些新的看法,例如中西医要取长补短,但不能合而为一。

It is not only reasonable but also necessary to determine the scientific position of medicine. With the development of society and science, the following matters become more and more apparent: the negligence of cultural spirit in society, the inadequacy of medical education and the structure of professional personnel and westernization of Chinese traditional medicine . These matters made people carry on medical research in a deeper and broader way so that cultural position of medicine could gradually be set up as a supplement to scientific position of medicine. This phenomenon is compatible to the contemporary trend from seperation of science and fine arts to the communication between the two . It is also the outcome of the extention of medicine to the field of social culture. This problem induces us to reflect on the essence and objective of medicine from the cultural perspective and in this way we shall have some new views,for instance,the western medicine and Chinese traditional medicine should complement each other, but cannot be combined into one subject.