Kleinman A, Kleinman J
Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, USA.
Cult Med Psychiatry. 1999 Mar;23(1):7-24. doi: 10.1023/a:1005488405643.
Chinese communities in East Asia are undergoing great economic and social change. The result includes material prosperity but also worsening mental and social health indices. Epidemiological studies clarify the magnitude of these problems and the particular vulnerability of women and the elderly. Ethnographic studies indicate that moral experience is also changing, and that with it subjectivity is being altered in ways that are of concern. And yet it is not clear, in historical perspective, how to assess these changes when they are compared to the extraordinarily difficult experiences of the Chinese over most of the Century.
东亚的华人社区正在经历巨大的经济和社会变革。其结果包括物质繁荣，但也有精神和社会健康指标的恶化。流行病学研究阐明了这些问题的严重程度以及妇女和老年人的特殊脆弱性。人种志研究表明，道德体验也在发生变化，随之而来的是主观性正在以令人担忧的方式被改变。然而，从历史的角度来看，当将这些变化与中国人在本世纪大部分时间里所经历的极其艰难的经历相比较时，如何评估这些变化尚不清楚。
