 The medical text: between biomedicine and hegemonyD. Filc Social Science & Medicine, 2004, vol. 59, issue 6, 1275-1285 Abstract: The unequal distribution of power in contemporary society is reflected and reproduced in medical ideology. The present article analyses some articles from Israeli medical journals in order to show the ways in which biomedicine--the dominant medical ideology--is reinforced through hegemonic discourse. The central ways by which this is achieved are medicalization--which includes the desocialization of disease and the explanation of social phenomena in medical terms--and the affirmation by the Israeli medical literature of national, ethnic, class and gender relationships of domination. Analysis of the Israeli example provides useful insights about biomedicine's desocializing role, as the disregard for the social dimension of disease is particularly telling in a society characterized by several cleavages which determine a clearly unequal distribution of power and resources. Keywords: Hegemony; Biomedicine; Medical; ideology; Israel; Palestinians; The; occupied; territories (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:socmed:v:59:y:2004:i:6:p:1275-1285 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Social Science & Medicine is currently edited by Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian More articles in Social Science & Medicine from Elsevier |
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