The Research On Postpartum Diseases Of Dai Nationality From The Perspective Of Medical Anthropology

The Medicine is not only a science in the sense of biology,but also a culture in the sense of anthropology.The prevention and treatment of puerperal disease in the Dai ethic group traditionally is the result of continuous accumulation,summary and repeated practice after several thousands of years.The form of medical knowledge of Dai ethic group is affected by geographical environment,social culture and living customs and is the medical knowledge with geographical feature.However,due to various reasons,Dai’s medicine is facing the disappearing crisis and the urgent to deepen study and discussion.Objective:The purpose of this research is to excavate and sort out the content of the practice of disease prevention and control of Dai people,and find the medical cultural connotation behind the prevention and control,the irreplaceable position of regional medical knowledge and multiple medical choices,so as to reflect the scientific and cultural duality of ethnic medicine from a new perspective,and provide “Dai experience” for the development and inheritance of ethnic medicine.Method:The research of this topic is mainly based on the combination of literature research and field research in anthropology.From the professional,folk and public levels,this paper explores and collates the theory,treatment principles,prescriptions,therapies,special skills,health care experience,traditional customs,rituals,culture,background and case data of Dai medicine in the prevention and treatment of this disease,and tries to carry out a specific research from the perspective of medical anthropology.Firstly,sort out the relevant literature of “puerperal disease”;secondly,make the field study and take the professional medical institution of one city and two counties in Xishuangbanna prefecture,village living by Dai’s doctor in folk and Dai people live in the village as the field point to collect the preventive and practical material of “puerperal disease”as well as the multiple choices of people under the background of Dai culture;lastly,use the theory and method of medical anthropologist comprehensively for analysis.Result:The study of this subject is mainly to use the theory and method of medical anthropology.Digging and sorting out the prevention of Dai medicine,treat the theory,treatment rules,prescriptions,therapies,special skills,health care experience,traditional customs,rituals,culture and background of this disease as well as the background and case materials,we try to study from the perspective of medical anthropologist.Firstly,sort out the relevant literature of “puerperal disease”;secondly,make the field study and take the professional medical institution of one city and two counties in Xishuangbanna prefecture,village living by Dai’s doctor in folk and Dai people live in the village as the field point to collect the preventive and practical material of “puerperal disease”as well as the multiple choices of people under the background of Dai culture;lastly,use the theory and method of medical anthropologist comprehensively for analysis.Conclusion:1.The individual interview on three levels embodies the existed differences for the reasons,recognition of treatment at different groups,which cannot be separated from individual experiences and religious cultural factors.2.The prevention and practice of Dai’s puerperal disease are mutually permeated and developed among profession,folk and mass.Therefore,the preventive principle,medicine and feature on the three levels have the features of commonness residing in individuality and diversity.3.The traditional prevention and treatment practice of Dai ethnic group have not only geographical and cultural feature as well as safety,efficiency,and benefit the people which is worthy to being promoted.4.The multiple social culture and medical environment form the multiple choices of healthcare service.More and more people tend to see the doctor in the professional medical institution but the elderly masses still keep the trusted attitudes in the remote areas.With the development of scientific technology,the preventive practice is changing now and only traditional treatment and complementary advantages.Only common development of modern treatment can satisfy the masses with the diverse and multi-level service demand of medicine.