医学的文化视角:基于医学人类学的理念

Medicine and culture: from perspective of medical anthropology

医学人类学是以人类学的理论视角和方法对不同文化的健康保健、疾病治疗模式进行研究,其理论视角可分为生物文化视角和社会文化视角。有关疾病的理论和实践本质上属于一种文化范畴,医学人类学从文化的角度对盛行于当今全世界的西方生化医疗模式进行了深刻的反思。

Medical anthropology focuses on the health care model and disease treatment research in different cultures with the theories and methods of anthropology. There are two different angle of the view： biological cultural perspective and social cultural perspective. Medical anthropology advocates that theory and practice of diseases essentially should fall into culture category,which represents a huge challenge to traditional biomedicine model and systems.