医学人类学视角下医学的起源和发展过程研究综述

Review on the Origin and the Development Process of Medicine from the Perspective of Medical Anthropology

医学关乎民生健康,是全人类共同关注的一个永恒话题。对医学起源到发展这个过程进行研究,可以找到医学发展的规律,从中汲取经验,为以后医学能够更好发展作指导。医学人类学是一门以研究疾病和文化为焦点的新兴学科,从这一独特视角对医学产生和发展过程进行研究可以更深层次、更全面地认识医学。综述了医学人类学等相关概念以及我国对于中西医学起源和发展的研究状况、研究特点,以供同仁参考。

Medicine is related to people＇ s wellbeing, which is an eternal topic that all mankind concern. Studying on the process from the origin to the development of medicine can figure out the development rules of med- icine, gain experience from it, and provide guidance for better development of medicine in the future. Medical an- thropology is a new discipline which focuses on the study of disease and culture. From this special perspective, studying on the process from the origin to the development of medicine can help us to have a profound and compre- hensive understanding of medicine. This paper reviewed the relevant concepts of medical anthropology and the re- search status and research characteristics of the origin and development of Chinese and Western Medicine, provi- ding a reference for the colleagues.