2. The role of anthropological approaches in health and welfare education / 医学教育

ABSTRACT

  The first role of anthropology in health and welfare education is to provide and cultivate viewpoints for understanding other cultures, including cultural relativism and holism, which is considered to be the basis of cultural competence. Second, this paper deals with legitimate peripheral participation as an example of the theoretical contributions of anthropology to medical, health, and welfare education. Third, ethnography, the method used in anthropology, has a further potential to be applied to qualitative studies of health and welfare. Constructive dialogue between anthropologists and medical specialists should be promoted to consider health and welfare education in the future.