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Can anyone make suggestions on who I ought to read to make an argument for understanding medical treatment as gift exchange (rather than as either market commodity, human right, or charity)? I have, so far... from medicine - William May - The physician's covenant from anthropology Mauss Titmuss Sahlins (and a bunch of later gift/economic anthropology items) from politcal science Polanyi I'm trying to argue that medical care can/should be understood and practiced as a kind of reciprocal gift exchange, that in humanitarian medicine settings the local indigenous mode of exchange is neither charity, rights, or commodity -based, and can/should be abided by... ie. not mere "cultural sensitivity" within the basic Western idea of doctor-patient relationship, but allowing the local ideas of doctor-patient relationship space to exert themselves. (and that the pre-modern pre-market craft ethos of Western medicine has a natural fit to pre-modern pre-market economies such as still are encountered in Papua New Guinea, Vanuautu, etc) thence to the profession of medicine as body autonomous of the state, that can protect the vulnerable (refugees), where states will not... without requiring (theoretically at least) either cash/state/or church nexus...individual reciprocity/relationship, in anarchic state system thanks nick jefferson-lenskyj (MBBS, U of Queensland; MA (Political Theory/International Relations, U of Toronto) ------ H-MedAnthro: H-Net Network on Medical Anthropology To post messages to the list, send them to: h-medanthro@h-net.msu.edu Network page: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~medanthro/ Society for Medical Anthropology website: http://www.medanthro.net/ To manage your subscription, visit: http://www.h-net.org/lists/subscribe.cgi ------ H-MedAnthro: H-Net Network on Medical Anthropology To post messages to the list, send them to: h-medanthro@h-net.msu.edu Network page: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~medanthro/ Society for Medical Anthropology website: http://www.medanthro.net/ To manage your subscription, visit: http://www.h-net.org/lists/subscribe.cgi
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