Original scientific paper

Neoliberal "Health", Global Illness and "Štampar" Medicine

Sanja ŠPOLJAR VRŽINA orcid.org/0000-0003-1645-2995 ; Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb

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 "[tampar medicine", so frequently mentioned
nowadays, not for the purpose of remembering and
celebrating, but as a source of new reinterpretations of
critical "[tampar" 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.

Keywords

neoliberalisation; global medicine; syncleptocracy; Andrija Štampar

Hrčak ID:

31147

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/31147

Publication date:

31.12.2008.

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