疾病·身体·文化:表象下的真实——从《苦痛和疾病的社会根源》谈起

Disease, Body, Culture---Reality beneath the Representation---on Social Origins of Distress and Disease

凯博文是人类学和医学学科交叉领域贡献最大的学者之一,其著作《苦痛和疾病的社会根源》探讨了疾病、身体、文化间的关系。疾病是一种建构,身体是一种文化,不同社会的文化建构不同的身体概念,身体与文化是一个相互作用、相互建构的过程,隐藏在身体表象下的是社会、文化的真实。

Arthur Kleinman is one of the greatest scholars on the interdisciplinary fields of anthropology and medicine. This essay reviews his Social Origins of Distress and Disease, and discusses the relation between disease, body and culture: disease is a construction and body is a culture;interaction and mutual construction marked the relation between body and culture; beneath the body representation is the social and cultural reality.