Neoliberal "Health", Global Illness and "[tampar" Medicine Cover Image

Neoliberalno "zdravlje", globalna bolest i štamparska medicina
Neoliberal "Health", Global Illness and "[tampar" Medicine

Author(s): Sanja Špoljar-Vržina
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
Keywords: neoliberalisation; global medicine; syncleptocracy; Andrija Štampar

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, by means of the protocols of critical anthropological analysis, mapped, defined and outlined are the main concepts present in today’s policy of global medicine. A specific starting point for this paper is an analysis of the case of Croatian health care in the sphere of the neoliberal matrix of commodification of all areas of life, with the most dramatic consequences in the fields of health, illness, social justice and ecological sustainability. In the second part of the paper the author supports the concept of "Štampar medicine", so frequently mentioned nowadays, not for the purpose of remembering and celebrating, but as a source of new reinterpretations of critical "Štampar" awareness so much needed in the current reality of sliding into plaster casts of neoliberal unsustainability, which can be especially perilous in the field of health and health care.

  • Issue Year: 17/2008
  • Issue No: 98
  • Page Range: 999-1021
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Croatian
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