人類學之臨床應用

Clinical Application of Anthropology

何明蓉(Ming-Jung Ho)

《Journal of Medical Education》 6卷4期 (2002/12) Pp. 396-401

https://doi.org/10.6145/jme.200212_6(4).0003

摘要

人類學者在美國的醫學教育和臨床應用皆扮演了相當重要的角色。他們協助醫生及醫學生解決病人的問題。本文首先介紹醫療人類學發展背景，接下來討論其四大臨床應用之概念：文化因素、解釋模式、疾病VS生病、以及語意組織。本文希望藉著探討醫療人類學之臨床應用，來說明醫學教育的新面向。藉此拋磚引玉，因而吸引更多醫生和學者共同研究發展適合台灣本土的臨床人類學。

關鍵字

醫療人類學 ； 社會醫學 ； 醫學教育

並列摘要

Anthropologists play an important role in medical education and clinical practice in the United States. They do this by assisting medical students and medical doctors to solve problems associated with patient illness. This article introduces the background of medical anthropology. Following the introduction, there is a discussion of four major concepts of clinically applied anthropology. These are: cultural factors, the explanatory model, disease versus illness, and the semantic network. The aim of this paper is to attract medical doctors and scholars to conduct research on clinical anthropology in Taiwan.

並列關鍵字

medical anthropology ； social medicine ； medical education

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