Finkler K
Department of Anthropology, CB3115 Alumni Building, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA.
Health Care Women Int. 2000 Jul-Aug;21(5):433-55. doi: 10.1080/07399330050082254.
In recent decades there has been an explosion of scholarship dealing with all aspects of women's existence, including gender differences. Whatever one's theoretical position regarding gender differences there is ample empirical evidence to show that rates of morbidity differ between men and women in contemporary society. A paradox exists that although women may live longer they tend to experience non-life-threatening conditions more than men do. What lies behind differential morbidity among women and men remains puzzling. In this paper the author attempts to address this puzzle by proposing the concept of life's lesions. It is proposed that women more than men experience life's lesion because they are caught in situations of unresolved contradictions and moral quandaries more than men. A case history from Mexico illustrates the theoretical proposition.
近几十年来，有关女性生存各个方面，包括性别差异的学术研究激增。无论一个人对于性别差异持何种理论立场，都有大量实证证据表明，当代社会中男性和女性的发病率有所不同。存在一个悖论，即尽管女性可能寿命更长，但她们比男性更容易经历非危及生命的状况。男女发病率差异背后的原因仍然令人困惑。在本文中，作者试图通过提出“生活创伤”这一概念来解决这一难题。有人提出，女性比男性更容易经历生活创伤，因为她们比男性更多地陷入未解决的矛盾和道德困境之中。一个来自墨西哥的病例史说明了这一理论主张。
