10 results on '"Medical industrial complex"'
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2. Introduction: medicine's shadowside: revisiting clinical iatrogenesis.
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Varley, Emma and Varma, Saiba
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Humans ,Iatrogenic Disease ,Healthcare Disparities ,Anthropology ,Medical ,Racism ,COVID-19 ,Iatrogenesis ,ethnography ,medical anthropology ,medical industrial complex ,medical racism ,Public Health and Health Services ,Public Health - Abstract
Drawing on the work of Ivan Illich, our special issue reanimates iatrogenesis as a vital concept for the social sciences of medicine. It calls for medicine to expand its engagement of the injustices that unfold from clinical processes, practices, and protocols into patient lifeworlds and subjectivities beyond the clinic. The capacious view of iatrogenesis revealed by this special issue collection affords fuller and more heterogeneous insights on iatrogenesis that does not limit it to medical explanations alone, nor locate harm in singular points in time. These papers attend to iatrogenesis' immediate and lingering presences in socialities and structures within and beyond medicine, and the ways it reflects or reproduces the racism, sexism, and ableism built into medical logics.
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- 2021
3. Hauntings of Longing: A Mad Autoethnographic Poetic Transcription
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Jersey Cosantino
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trans ,mad ,haunting ,autoethnography ,diagnosis ,cure ,medical industrial complex ,Social Sciences - Abstract
This poetry collection explores my grapplings with my Mad and trans identities within the curative, diagnostic, medical model discourses of the medical industrial complex. Using an autoethnographic Mad and trans poesis, I seek to situate these grapplings within historical and present-day systems of power, privilege, and oppression, confronting the hauntings (Gordon, 2008) that arise from my simultaneous complicity in and disruption of these institutionalized structures of harm and violence that disproportionately target bodyminds that are deemed non-normative. By engaging in this process through poetic expression, I center an embodied form of knowledge production that challenges sanist notions of rationality and hetero- and cis-normativity constructed and perpetuated by white settler colonial ideologies. My unearthing of these hauntings (Gordon, 2008) and my relationship to them on an internal, interpersonal, and systemic level is merely a beginning in a life-long journey of trans and Mad becoming.
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- 2021
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4. Le développement du capitalisme sanitaire et l’émergence du complexe médico-industriel
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Jean-Paul Domin
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health capitalism ,private clinics ,système de santé ,health insurance ,health system ,medical industrial complex ,assurance maladie ,cliniques privées ,complexe médico industriel ,capitalisme sanitaire - Abstract
Ce travail s’intéresse aux évolutions récentes du marché de la santé et notamment au développement du capitalisme sanitaire. Si l’accès à la santé s’est généralisé à la fin du XIXe siècle comme un outil d’amélioration de la qualité de la force de travail, il tend aujourd’hui à évoluer. Le système de santé s’émancipe ainsi de sa mission initiale pour devenir un élément à part entière du capitalisme. Les évolutions récentes du système de santé (développement de l’assurance maladie complémentaire, de la télémédecine, des cliniques privées, …) sont devenues des activités génératrices de profit et semblent aller à l’encontre de ses objectifs premiers. L’article montre que le développement du capitalisme sanitaire va à l’encontre de l’objectif principal du système de soins, l’entretien de la force de travail. This work looks at recent developments in the health market and in particular the development of health capitalism. While access to health care became widespread at the end of the 19th century as a tool for improving the quality of the workforce, it is now tending to evolve. The health system is thus emancipating itself from its initial mission to become an integral part of capitalism. Recent developments in the health system (development of supplementary health insurance, telemedicine, private clinics, etc.) have become profit-generating activities and seem to run counter to its original objectives. The article shows that the development of health capitalism goes against the main objective of the health care system, the maintenance of the labour force.
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- 2022
5. For Those Considering Medical School: A Black Queer Feminist Perspective
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Ejiogu, Nwadiogo I., author, McKee, Kimberly D., editor, and Delgado, Denise A., editor
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- 2020
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6. Ordinary medicine
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Sharon R. Kaufman
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biotechnology ,ethics ,medical industrial complex ,Anthropology ,GN1-890 ,Medicine (General) ,R5-920 - Abstract
Medicine in the twenty-first century is constituted and propelled by the production of evidence. Once produced, the use of that evidence is complicated by features inherent in the American and global biomedical economy itself. With the exponential rise in the use of cardiac devices as my case study, this think piece traces the links among evidence-based medicine, insurance reimbursement policies, and clinical trial outcomes to reveal how evidence produced by trial findings creates treatment standards. Those standards, in turn, expand what is thought to be ‘treatable’ by reconceptualizing risk as a condition that deserves intervention. Such standards affect what physicians recommend and what patients decide to do. The essay emphasizes that evidence-based medicine can be a source of anxiety that patients and families feel when considering how to proceed. It highlights the debates, increasingly common both within and beyond the health professions, about what is actually best as we grow older. It provides an example of how, today, most deaths, even among the very old, are considered premature. In an aging society, the treatment protocols that fall under the evidence-based medicine umbrella constitute an enormous truth-making regime that determines the goals of medicine and shapes health care consumers’ quandaries about medical intervention, and especially the quandary, for those in later life, about crossing the line of too much treatment.
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- 2016
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7. Biomedicalización e infancia: trastorno de déficit de atención e hiperactividad.
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Iriart, Celia and Iglesias Ríos, Lisbeth
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- 2012
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8. The Emergence of Traumatic Birth
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Tillman, Claudia
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- traumatic birth, childbirth, medical industrial complex, sociology of birth
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This study is a content analysis on the emerging concept of traumatic birth using the ProQuest Central search database. I analyze the entrance of the term into both peer reviewed and popular texts. The purpose of the study is to understand the cultural and socio-historical context of the concept of traumatic birth and to consider how and by/for whom this concept developed and became accessible. I use theoretical frameworks of embodiment, medicalization, critical constructionism, and feminism to consider the implications of the phenomena of traumatic birth for birthing parents today. Using a grounded theory-based strategy, I examine the ways that the growing lens of trauma has influenced ideas around the experience of childbirth as well as the impact of modern birth rhetoric and practices on birthing parents’ interpretations of the event.
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- 2018
9. Biomedicalização e infância: transtorno de déficit de atenção de hiperatividade
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Celia Iriart and Lisbeth Iglesias Rios
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Medical industrial complex ,Institutionalisation ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Complejo médico-industrial ,Trastorno por Déficit de Atención con Hiperactividad (TDAH) ,Uso de medicamentos ,Developmental psychology ,Transtorno de déficit de atenção com hiperatividade (TDAH) ,Politics ,DSM ,Consumidor de saúde ,Phenomenon ,Drug utilization ,medicine ,Consumidor de salud ,Biomedicalização ,Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ,Health consumer ,Utilización de medicamentos ,media_common ,Pharmaceutical industry ,Complexo médico-industrial ,business.industry ,lcsh:Public aspects of medicine ,Biomedicalización ,lcsh:RA1-1270 ,medicine.disease ,Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) ,Biomedicalization ,Ideology ,business ,Psychology - Abstract
El artículo analiza críticamente el aumento de los niños diagnosticados y tratados por el Trastorno de Déficit de Atención e Hiperactividad (TDAH). Los análisis vinculan este creciente fenómeno con las estrategias de la industria farmacéutica para reposicionarse en el liderazgo de la conceptualización del proceso salud-enfermedad-atención y en el mercado de salud. Utilizamos métodos analítico-interpretativos para estudiar datos primarios y secundarios, y realizar una extensa revisión bibliográfica. A la luz del concepto de biomedicalización analizamos los mecanismos subjetivo-ideológicos que facilitaron que este discurso se instituya como una nueva verdad sobre este trastorno y sea legitimado por los organismos gubernamentales y las organizaciones de la sociedad civil. La biomedicalización del sufrimiento infantil dificulta que se pongan en evidencia los profundos cambios socioeconómicos, políticos e ideológico-culturales que han transformado radicalmente nuestras sociedades en las últimas décadas. The article critically analyzes the increasing number of children diagnosed with and treated for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The analysis links this growing phenomenon with the strategies of the pharmaceutical industry to attain leadership in the health-illness-care process as well as in the health market. We utilized analytical and interpretive methods to study primary and secondary data and conducted an extensive literature review. In light to the concept of biomedicalization, we analyzed the ideological and subjective mechanisms that facilitated the institutionalization of this discourse as a new truth concerning this disease as well as its legitimization by governmental and civic organizations. The biomedicalization of children's suffering facilitates the concealment of deeply rooted socio-economic, political, ideological and cultural changes that have radically transformed our societies over the past few decades. O artigo analisa criticamente o aumento das crianças diagnosticadas e tratadas por Transtorno de Déficit de Atenção de Hiperatividade (TDAH). As análises vinculam este crescente fenômeno às estratégias da indústria farmacêutica para se reposicionarem na liderança da conceituação do processo saúde-doença-atenção e no mercado de saúde. Utilizamos métodos analítico-interpretativos para estudar dados primários e secundários, e realizar uma extensa revisão bibliográfica. À luz do conceito da biomedicalização, analisamos os mecanismos subjetivo-ideológicos que facilitaram que este discurso se institua como uma nova verdade sobre este transtorno e seja legitimado pelos organismos governamentais e organizações da sociedade civil. A biomedicalização do sofrimento infantil dificulta que se revelem as profundas mudanças socioeconômicas, políticas e ideológico-culturais que têm transformado radicalmente nossas sociedades nas últimas décadas.
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- 2012
10. The Ability Contract The Ideological, Affective, and Material Negotiations of Women Living with HIV
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Day, Allyson L.
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- Womens Studies, Health, Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies, Epistemology, disability theory, feminism, HIV, medical industrial complex, narrative medicine, social contract theory, black feminist thought, critical race theory, reading group methodology
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This dissertation project theorizes the ability contract as a means for understanding the experience of women living with HIV in the United States. I understand the ability contract as the triad of labor-utility-predictability that is central to the construction of the liberal citizen-subject, extending the work of John Locke, Carol Pateman, Charles Mills and Shannon Winnubst. The theory of this project is rooted in my original field research; during the 2012-2013 academic year, I spent six months facilitating a reading group for women living with HIV. Together, we read popular memoirs written by women with what I have termed invisible episodic illness, such as lupus, early stage m.s., chronic depression and HIV. Participants in the reading group used these books as a catalyst for discussing their daily negotiations of labor, family and the medical industrial complex in relation to disability identity. I also conducted one-on-one preliminary and follow-up interviews. What I found was that my research participants all resisted a disability identification, despite many of them accessing disability resources. They also all closely connected their identity not to their current employment conditions, but to their prediction of how they will be able to work in the future. This prediction of becoming a wage-earner was the primary reason for their dis/identification with disability. What explains this close connection of disability with future labor? And what is the relationship between labor and disability at the intersection of gender, race, class, and (medical) citizenship? In order to address these questions, I developed a three-tier reading group research method; in my dissertation, I analyze life narratives of women living with HIV, both the narratives of the women in my group and published narratives; I also analyze the reading group reception to those life narratives; finally, I re-read social contract theory alongside American multiracial feminisms, disability theory, autobiographical theory, and affect theory to understand the Ability Contract as affective, material and ideological; this interpretation leads me to an analysis of narrative medicine, where I argue against the fetishization of narrative within the medical industrial complex.
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- 2014
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