新自由主义全球化对“医疗化”的形构

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Abstract: There has been a lack of systematic analysis of the relation between “medicalization” and the neoliberal globalization. Drawing upon Cox’s hegemony theory, this paper intends to fill parts of this gap and suggests that Neoliberalism intensifies “medicalization” through the aspects of material power, institutions, and conception. The paper recounts on the mechanisms within these three domains respectively. In terms of material power, a complex network formed among industry, government, and academic circle can maneuver a strong market power to intensify “medicalization”. Affecting institutions include the construction of an international patent system and the policies about medicalization made by governments. As for the aspect of conception, this paper examines the promotion strategies of certain medicine by some groups having recourse to a “competitive discourse”, the popularity of selfhealthcontrol management, the spread of risk discourse and the emergence of alternative medication. However, this operation has also developed other possibilities. First of all, this operation cannot be easily achieved as the antineoliberalist forces are resisting medicalization. Secondly, new forms of medicalization have emerged which shift from the control of the health care system to a situation in which people are more willing to seek medical treatment, as a result of the popularity of health risk discourse. Also, the development of new medical technology on the one hand stops certain aspects of medicalization, but increasingly monitors human body on the other. However, despite the existence of anti neoliberalist forces, the medical supply side and the demand side are both involved in a common interest of commercialization. The structural power of neoliberalism is still difficult to shake, which ends up in the further intensification of medicalization.

Key words: Neoliberalism , institution , conception, material power , medicalization

Hsiao I-Hsin. Neo-liberalist Globalization on the Formation of “Medicalization”[J]. Chinese Journal of Sociology.

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