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=Governmentality, "critical" medical anthropology and the Marxist critique=

Development and trajectories
As Nancy Scheper-Hughes wrote in a 1991 //Social Science and Medicine// article, "Is there a mediating, third path between the individualizing, meaning-centered discourse of the symbolic, hermeneutic, phenomenologic medical anthropologists, on the other hand, and the collectivized, depersonalized, mechanistic abstractions of the medical marxists, on the other?" (1991: 189).

In Merrill Singer's (1995) opinion, critical medical anthropology has move the field into "a second phase in the evolution of perspective."

Influenced by
Karl Marx : class struggle Michel Foucault : biopower, governmentality Giorgio Agamben : "bare life" Gilles Deleuze Antonio Gramci : hegemony

Key concepts
Bare life/homo sacer Biopower Governmentality Marxist critique Reification

Key figures
Ronald Frankenberg [link: 1983 Cambridge University video interview] Eliot Mishler Marilyn Nations/Linda Rebhun Vincente Navarro Lorna Rhodes Nancy Scheper-Hughes Merrill Singer Allan Young

Bibliographies

 * Singer, Merrill.**
 * (1995). Beyond the Ivory Tower: Critical Praxis in Medical Anthropology. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 9(1):80-106.
 * Frankenberg, Ronald**
 * (1988). Gramsci, culture, and medical anthropology: Kundry and Parsifal? Or rat's tail to sea serpent?. Medical anthropology Quarterly 2(4):324-37. [Excerpt: "Healers are an important type of intellectual, and healing ideologies play an important part in hegemonic struggles."]

Interesting sources

 * http://medanth.wikispaces.com/Critical+Medical+Anthropology