Fabrega H
University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, USA.
Med Anthropol Q. 1997 Mar;11(1):26-55. doi: 10.1525/maq.1997.11.1.26.
Sickness and healing constitute the root concepts that center medical anthropological inquiry and give the field its identity. Here, they are held to manifest a biological adaptation designed by evolution that requires culture for its final realization. Sickness and healing thus provide anthropology with a biocultural form that has changed in content and expression during cultural evolution. The early phases of this evolution, those bearing the most apparent influences of the environment of evolutionary adaptedness, are reviewed and analyzed in the article. Some of the implications of this for medical anthropology are discussed.
疾病与治愈构成了医学人类学研究的核心概念，并赋予了该领域独特的身份。在此，它们被认为体现了一种由进化设计的生物适应性，而这种适应性的最终实现需要文化的参与。因此，疾病与治愈为人类学提供了一种生物文化形式，这种形式在文化进化过程中其内容和表现方式都发生了变化。本文回顾并分析了这种进化的早期阶段，这些阶段受进化适应环境的影响最为明显。同时，还讨论了这对医学人类学的一些启示。
