A METHODOLOGY FOR CROSS-CULTURAL ETHNOMEDICAL RESEARCH
A METHODOLOGY FOR CROSS-CULTURAL ETHNOMEDICAL RESEARCH
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DOI：
10.1086/203688
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发表时间：
1988-12-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
RUBEL, AJ
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作者：
BROWNER, CH;DEMONTELLANO, BRO;RUBEL, AJ
医学人类学将成熟为一门对人类学理论和实践做出累积贡献的学科的承诺尚未兑现。我们认为，将民族医学的主位视角与生物科学的主位测量相结合的分析框架可以为人类生理过程的跨文化比较研究产生有价值的新解释，这些过程被感知的方式，以及这些感知产生的特定于文化的行为。对墨西哥草药的生物科学评估和拉丁美洲-加拿大民间疾病综合症的生物医学特征的案例研究将说明我们的方法。我们认为，这一框架可以产生进一步发展医学人类学中的可测性理论的结果。
The promise that medical anthropology would mature into a discipline that would cumulatively contribute to anthropological theory and practice has not yet been fulfilled. We propose that an analytic framework combining the emic perspective of ethnomedicine with the etic measures of bioscience can generate valuable new interpretations for cross-cultural, comparative studies of human physiological processes, the ways in which such processes are perceived, and the culture-specific behaviors these perceptions produce. Case studies of the bioscientific assessment of Mexican herbal medicines and the biomedical features of the Latin Ameri-can folk illness syndrome susto will illustrate our approach. We argue that this framework can produce results that further the development of testable theory in medical anthropology.