Hunter S S
Soc Sci Med. 1985;21(12):1297-307. doi: 10.1016/0277-9536(85)90432-0.
The call for macro health systems models which emerged in medical anthropology in the mid-1970s from the field's most respected thinkers has a deep theoretical history and can also be related to theoretical developments in sociology, clinical medicine and international public health. The trends leading to a recognition of the need for modeling by medical anthropologists have been the source of some of medical anthropology's limitations and weaknesses as well, especially the failure to fulfill the field's promise as a biocultural bridge for the parent discipline.
20世纪70年代中期，医学人类学领域最受尊敬的思想家们提出了对宏观卫生系统模型的需求，这有着深厚的理论历史，并且也与社会学、临床医学和国际公共卫生领域的理论发展相关。导致医学人类学家认识到需要进行建模的这些趋势，同时也是医学人类学一些局限性和弱点的根源，尤其是未能实现该领域作为母学科生物文化桥梁的前景。
