Stuck in the Clinic: Vernacular Healing and Medical Anthropology in Contemporary sub-Saharan Africa: Stuck in the Clinic
Stuck in the Clinic: Vernacular Healing and Medical Anthropology in Contemporary sub-Saharan Africa: Stuck in the Clinic
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困在诊所：当代撒哈拉以南非洲的本土治疗和医学人类学：困在诊所
DOI：
10.1111/maq.12467
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Scherz, China
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作者：
Scherz, China
虽然当地疗法长期以来一直是许多关于非洲医学和治疗的著作感兴趣的主题，但除了少数例外，最近关于非洲医学的人类学著作主要集中在生物医学上。在这篇文章中，我将这种转变追溯到千年之交和三个事件的汇合：全球健康的出现，神秘经济范式的加入，以及医学人类学对文化主义的批评。我认为，这三个转变导致的研究项目和优先事项看起来与20世纪90年代末定义和开展的研究项目和优先事项不同。在试图避免将非洲本土治疗传统作为有限的综合系统写作时可能出现的错误的同时，我认为医学人类学家可能想要重新考虑我们的集体研究优先事项是有经验的、政治的和实际的原因的。
While vernacular therapeutics had long been a topic of interest to many writing about medicine and healing in Africa, with a few exceptions most recent anthropological writings on medicine in Africa are focused on biomedicine. In this article, I trace this shift back to the turn of the millennium and the convergence of three events: the emergence of global health, the accession of the occult economies paradigm, and critiques of culturalism in medical anthropology. I argue that these three shifts led to research projects and priorities that looked different from those defined and undertaken as late as the late 1990s. While seeking to avoid the errors that could come with writing about vernacular therapeutic traditions in Africa as bounded comprehensive systems, I argue that there are empirical, political, and practical reasons why medical anthropologists may want to reconsider our collective research priorities.