人类学视角下的医疗多元

On Medical Pluralism from the Perspective of Anthropology

对医疗多元现象的讨论是医学人类学的经典议题,医疗人类学家早期以民族志的方式记录了不同地理、族群、文化中的医疗多元现象,其后对这些表现在医学领域中的异文化进行了社会学的分析。本文分别从医疗目的、手段上的多元化入手,进行一定的分析,认为在我国多民族聚居的地方,医疗多元是一种必然存在,是需要提倡弘扬的文化现象。并且,在人类学视角下研究医疗多元,能够更加理解医学的社会学本质。

Discussion on the phenomenon of medical pluralism is a classic issue of medical anthropology. Medical anthropologists in the early time have recorded the phenomenon of medical plu-ralism in different geographical conditions, ethnic groups and cultures by the way of ethnographic approach, and conducted a sociological analysis on the alien culture embodied in the medical field. Starting from the pluralism of medical purposes and means, this paper makes certain analysis, and holds that in China＇s mul-ti-ethnic areas,medical pluralism is a necessary cultural phe-nomenon needing to be advocated. Besides, to study medical pluralism from the perspective of anthropology can help us better understand the sociological essence of medicine.