Every culture has rules for translating signs into symptoms, for linking symptomatologies to etiologies and interventions, and for using the evidence provided by interventions to confirm translations and legitimize outcomes. The path a person follows from translation to socially significant outcome constitutes his sickness (Allan Young 1982. p. 270).
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机译：每种文化都有规则，将迹象转变为症状，将症状学与病因和干预措施联系起来，并使用干预措施提供的证据来确认翻译并使结果合法化。一个人从翻译到具有社会意义的结果所遵循的路径构成了他的疾病（Allan Young 1982，第270页）。
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