Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mathews, Paul W.

Titel

MEDICAL IDIOMS AS LEGITIMATE RESPONSES TO FAMILY PLANNING

Ist Teil von

• Social analysis, 1992-07, Vol.31 (31), p.103-125

Ort / Verlag

Adelaide: Department of Anthropology, University of Adelaide

Erscheinungsjahr

1992

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Based on fieldwork conducted 1987/88, it is shown how the people of a Philippine rural community perceive & respond to the National Family Planning Program. The medical underpinnings of the program are explored in terms of B. S. Turner's thesis of the body (The Body and Society: Explorations in Social Theory, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984) & Michel Foucault's theory of power/knowledge. It is argued that family planning is an attempt by the state to impose systematization & discipline on the masses through a process of medicalization, masked in the rhetoric of economic developmentalism. Filipinos perceive this state intrusion as attempting to delimit or alter socioeconomic roles, particularly those of children & parents, & they respond in the same medical idiom as that used by the state. 2 Tables, 57 References. Modified AA