Singer M
University of Connecticut Health Center, Hartford 06106.
Med Anthropol. 1990 Aug;12(3):289-304. doi: 10.1080/01459740.1990.9966027.
Of late, discourse in anthropology increasingly has been set within the frame of postmodernism. While debate continues as to whether postmodernism represents a particular period or an historically conditioned perspective (or interrelated set of perspectives) within the social sciences and beyond, it is clear that assessment is needed of the impact of postmodernism on work within the field. This paper represents a critique of the potential effect of postmodernism within medical anthropology. It is the argument of this paper that despite the postmodern eschewal of so-called grand theory, postmodern writers in anthropology smuggle a theoretical perspective into their work. The problems of this perspective in terms of the critical turn within medical anthropology are examined.
近来，人类学领域的论述越来越多地置于后现代主义的框架之内。尽管关于后现代主义究竟代表一个特定时期，还是社会科学及其他领域内一种受历史条件限制的视角（或相互关联的一系列视角）的争论仍在继续，但很明显，有必要评估后现代主义对该领域工作的影响。本文对后现代主义在医学人类学中的潜在影响进行了批判。本文的论点是，尽管后现代主义摒弃了所谓的宏大理论，但人类学领域的后现代主义作家却将一种理论视角偷偷带入了他们的作品中。本文探讨了这种视角在医学人类学批判性转向方面存在的问题。
