The Methodological Turn of Medical Anthropology of Traditional Chinese Sports
Health and disease are important propositions facing individuals in the life process.Taking the illness narrative of breast cancer patients in the Western"Survivors Dragon Boat Team"as an object of analysis,this paper discusses the methodological shift in sports medical anthropology research.The study concluded that:Since its emergence in the late 20th century,the western illness narrative of traditional Chinese sports has undergone a series of narrative shifts,including themes such as overcoming fear,self-a-wakening,the spirit of competition,and self-transcendence.This has led to the formation of a medical anthropology research para-digm that is application-oriented,individually interpreted,and patient-participatory fieldwork.Despite the use of patient participato-ry investigation to enhance narrative validity,the medical anthropological study of western traditional Chinese sports is constrained by a lack of cultural evidence,insufficient systematic care,and inadequate second-order observation.Furthermore,it is unable to in-corporate the life emotion,social mentality,and humanistic history into the succession of Chinese theoretical traditions.In the theo-retical research and treatment practice of China's Healthy China strategy,a paradigm shift has been achieved from the"illness narra-tive"to the"life biography method",which combines social transformation with the modernisation of excellent traditional sports cul-ture,and forms a research framework that is overall related to"patients'disease and pain experience,community health community,and national health regulation",thus promoting the methodological shift of traditional Chinese sports medical anthropology research.
traditional Chinese sportsmedical anthropologyposttraumatic growthparticipatory researchillness narrativelife bi-ography method
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