健康、医疗与文化之人类学研究的地方经验

Local Experiences of Anthropological Studies on Health,Illness and Medical Treatments

健康、医疗与文化研究的对象复杂多样,需要交叉汲取多学科研究视角及理论方法综合展开。认知人类学对医患之间基于不同疾病认知的互动关系研究具有显著的指导作用,但涉及跨区域的比较研究或更为复杂的地方性疾病观念和治疗行为时,更加宽广的视野及相关理论方法的调整就成为必要。

The anthropological studies of health, illness and their medical treatments in related cultural socio-cultural background have many complicated research subjects which need to he dealt with through applying different theories and methods. Cognitive anthropology has been comparatively effective in studying the interactions and mutual relations of two different patterns of the illness notations between doctors and patients, but their efficiency becomes limited when the study targets are related cross-cultural comparisons and in more troublesome local medical cognition and treatments, and then we need to introduce more suitable theories and methodologies.