Rescuing Public Health From the Global Capitalist Regime
The Public Health Liberation Movement in Taiwan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3757523 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chengpang Lee (0000-0003-1240-7388, Department of Applied Social Science, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, corresponding author), Meei-Shia Chen (National Cheng Kung University), Meei‐Shia Chen (National Cheng Kung University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 322-337 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00027642221134845 |
| OpenAlex | W4309011178 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
In the past, scholars of academic dependency have tended to focus their discussions on social sciences while treating other fields as separate. They suggest that in order to escape dependency, alternative discourse and autonomy should be developed. In this paper, we examine the Public Health Liberation (PHL) movement in Taiwan and theorize on the marketization and medicalization of the healthcare system since the 1980s as a dependency syndrome. The PHL was initiated by a group of public health scholars-with the second author of this paper being one of its key protagonists-and frontline public health practitioners after the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in 2003. Inspired by the mass mobilization model in public health in Asian and Latin American countries, particularly China, the Philippines, and Nicaragua, PHL trains grassroots public health educators, nurtures critical research, and has built a network of activists for radical public health reform in Taiwan. Based on participatory action research, this paper analyzes the emergence of this influential public health movement and situates it within the global context of neoliberal health reforms
China · Context (archaeology) · Economic growth · Economics · Grassroots · Health care · Health promotion · Marketization · Medicalization · Political science · Politics · Public health · Social movement · Sociology · Solidarity · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Public Administration · Public Health Policies and Education
You are Dangerous to Your Health
Life after cancer and the communist order
The invisibility of public health
Overcoming the latecomer dilemma
Global trade, public health, and health services
Medicine as an Institution of Social Control
The Autonomous, the Universal and the Future of Sociology
Medicalization and Social Control
Empire, Health, and Health Care
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |