Between the politics of the living and the politics of life Towards an anthropology of health
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https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472X.1226Keywords:
Health, alive, live, health policies, immigrantsAbstract
Through a review of recent trends in medical anthropology, this article defines the theoretical and methodological challenges faced by anthropology in the field of health studies. as such, the political anthropology of health posits a fundamental distinction between what lives and what is alive, given that health itself is not an ideological problem. Rather, it integrates broader social logics. On one hand, the development of new medical technologies, and on the other, the implementation of state policies regarding social security, condition access to health services, reflecting the existing power relations that weigh in on the government of life and disease.
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