Doctors and the State: Critical Perspectives from East Asia and Beyond.

IF 1.3 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-18 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2026.2688803

Claire L Wendland

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Abstract

Anthropologists studying biomedicine have often analyzed the profession as a disciplinary arm of the state. This approach risks misrecognizing the complexity of state-physician-society relations, and the political agency of doctors. In this commentary, I analyze contributions of the articles in this special issue on East Asia in the context of other work on medicine and state power.

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医生与国家：来自东亚及其他地区的批判视角。

研究生物医学的人类学家经常把这一职业作为国家的一个学科分支来分析。这种方法有可能误解国家-医生-社会关系的复杂性，以及医生的政治代理。在这篇评论中，我将在其他关于医学和国家权力的文章的背景下，分析本期东亚特刊文章的贡献。

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Medical Anthropology Multiple-

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4.10

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4.30%

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期刊介绍： Medical Anthropology provides a global forum for scholarly articles on the social patterns of ill-health and disease transmission, and experiences of and knowledge about health, illness and wellbeing. These include the nature, organization and movement of peoples, technologies and treatments, and how inequalities pattern access to these. Articles published in the journal showcase the theoretical sophistication, methodological soundness and ethnographic richness of contemporary medical anthropology. Through the publication of empirical articles and editorials, we encourage our authors and readers to engage critically with the key debates of our time. Medical Anthropology invites manuscripts on a wide range of topics, reflecting the diversity and the expanding interests and concerns of researchers in the field.