For medical anthropologists, people everywhere live in the flow of interpersonal interactions in local worlds – social networks, families, institutions, and communities. That is to say, experience, viewed as the flow of words, movements, and emotions between us, is not only local, but also inherently moral, because living our lives is about animating and enacting values.
其结果就是医学实践的道德贫困。对医学人类学家来说，任何地方的人都生活在当地（即社交网络、家人、机构以及社区）的人际互动之中。也就是说，被认为是人们相互间的语言、行动以及情感流动的体验，不仅是本地的，而且具有内在的道德性，因为我们的生活就是有关赋予价值和表现价值的。