'Mais Médicos': Discourses, Bodies, and the Biopolitics of Medical Internationalism
| Autor: | José Oviedo Pérez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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030505 public health
Internationalism (politics) Inequality business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Gender studies General Medicine Medical care 03 medical and health sciences Political science 0502 economics and business Health care 0305 other medical science business 050203 business & management Biopower media_common |
| Zdroj: | Sexualidad, Salud y Sociedad (Rio de Janeiro). :4-24 |
| ISSN: | 1984-6487 |
| DOI: | 10.1590/1984-6487.sess.2020.34.02.a |
| Popis: | Starting in 2013, the Mais Médicos program brought over 11,400 Cuban doctors to work in Brazil. The program aimed to reduce inequality in access to medical care; but it was met with heavy resistance from Brazilian medical professionals. This article employs Foucault, Butler, and other post-modern thinkers to analyze Mais Médicos. Specifically, we argue that Mais Médicos did not lead to a politicization of Brazilian health care, but rather that pre-existing discourses were called upon to support or counter the arrival of Cuban doc-tors. This discursive struggle resulted in a dispute over biopower within Brazilian society. We base our claims on fieldwork and interviews conducted with Cuban doctors, Brazilian doc-tors, and Brazilian politicians. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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