Bull M
Wolfson College, Oxford.
Br J Sociol. 1990 Jun;41(2):245-61.
This paper examines Bryan Turner's view that medicine has replaced religion as the 'social guardian of morality.' It argues that Turner's failure to co-ordinate the theories of secularization and medicalization has prevented this hypothesis from being fully explored. A systematic and synthesized account of both medicalization and secularization is given, and used as the framework for a review of the history of Seventh-day Adventism-a sect that is both a product and an agent of the two processes. In conclusion it is suggested that medicalization may be conductive to sect development, and that secularization and medicalization are compatible models of social change.
本文探讨了布莱恩·特纳的观点，即医学已取代宗教成为“道德的社会守护者”。文章认为，特纳未能协调世俗化和医学化理论，这使得这一假设无法得到充分探讨。本文对医学化和世俗化进行了系统的综合阐述，并将其作为回顾基督复临安息日会历史的框架——该教派既是这两个过程的产物，也是其推动者。文章最后指出，医学化可能有助于教派发展，而且世俗化和医学化是社会变革的兼容模式。
