The interpretation of sensations and the recognition of symptoms of a sickness, as well as the movement to seek treatment, have long been recognised in medical anthropology as inherently social processes. Based on cases of HIV and trauma (PTSD) in Uganda, we show that even the fi rst signs and sensations of sickness can be radically social. The sensing body can be a ‘social body’ – a family, a couple, a network – a unit that transcends the individual body. In this article, we focus on four aspec ts of the sociality of sensations and symptoms: mode of transmission, the shared experience of sensations/symptoms, diff erential recognition of symptoms, and the embodied sociality of treatment.

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症状的社会感觉

长期以来，医学人类学已将感觉的解释和疾病症状的识别以及寻求治疗的运动视为社会过程。根据乌干达的HIV和创伤病例（PTSD），我们表明，即使是疾病的最初征兆和感觉也可以从根本上实现社会化。感应身体可以是“社会身体”，即家庭，夫妻，网络，是超越个体身体的单元。在本文中，我们关注于感觉和症状的社会性的四个方面：传播方式，感觉/症状的共享经验，症状的差异性识别以及所体现的治疗的社会性。