Department of Sociology, Western Galilee Academic College.
Med Anthropol Q. 2013 Sep;27(3):368-84. doi: 10.1111/maq.12049. Epub 2013 Oct 8.
This article contributes to contemporary critical debate in medical anthropology concerning medical pluralism and integrative medicine by highlighting the issue of exclusion of traditional medicine (TM) and presenting attempts at border crossing. Although complementary medicine (CM) modalities are integrated into most Israeli mainstream health care organizations, local indigenous TM modalities are not. Ethnographic fieldwork focused on a group of Israeli dual-trained integrative physicians that has recently begun to integrate traditional herbal medicine preferred by the Arab minority, using it as a boundary object to bridge professional gaps between biomedicine, CM, and TM. This article highlights the relevance of political tensions, ethnicity, and medical inequality to the field of integrative health care. It shows that using herbal medicine as a boundary object can overcome barriers and provide opportunities for dialog and reciprocal learning.
本文通过突出传统医学（TM）被排斥的问题，并展示跨界尝试，为医学人类学中关于医学多元化和整合医学的当代批判性辩论做出了贡献。尽管补充医学（CM）模式已融入大多数以色列主流医疗保健组织，但当地本土的 TM 模式并未融入。民族志实地考察的重点是一群最近开始整合阿拉伯少数民族所偏好的传统草药的以色列双重培训的整合医生，他们将传统草药用作边界对象，以弥合生物医学、CM 和 TM 之间的专业差距。本文强调了政治紧张局势、族裔和医疗不平等对综合保健领域的重要性。它表明，将草药作为边界对象可以克服障碍，为对话和相互学习提供机会。
