TY - JOUR
T1 - Work, ideology, and science
T2 - The case of medicine
AU - Navarro, V.
PY - 1980
Y1 - 1980
N2 - This article discusses the nature of work, ideology, and science in Western capitalist societies. It analyzes how capitalist or bourgeois ideology reproduces capitalist dominance in the spheres of production (Section I), politics (Section II), and science to that capitalist dominance through a continuous process of class struggle Sections I, II, and III show how class struggle affects bourgeois dominance in the processes of production, politics, and science and medicine, respectively. Special focus in Section III is on the analysis of (a) how bourgeois dominance appears in science and medicine, (b) how bourgeois ideology appears and is reproduced in medical knowledge, and (c) how class struggle determines the nature of scientific and medical knowledge. In this section, an alternative mode of production of scientific and medical knowledge, different from the prevalent bourgeois one, is presented and discussed. In all three sections, medicine and medical knowledge are chosen as the primary points of reference.
AB - This article discusses the nature of work, ideology, and science in Western capitalist societies. It analyzes how capitalist or bourgeois ideology reproduces capitalist dominance in the spheres of production (Section I), politics (Section II), and science to that capitalist dominance through a continuous process of class struggle Sections I, II, and III show how class struggle affects bourgeois dominance in the processes of production, politics, and science and medicine, respectively. Special focus in Section III is on the analysis of (a) how bourgeois dominance appears in science and medicine, (b) how bourgeois ideology appears and is reproduced in medical knowledge, and (c) how class struggle determines the nature of scientific and medical knowledge. In this section, an alternative mode of production of scientific and medical knowledge, different from the prevalent bourgeois one, is presented and discussed. In all three sections, medicine and medical knowledge are chosen as the primary points of reference.
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U2 - 10.2190/6EAJ-HEXP-UBQG-GK4A
DO - 10.2190/6EAJ-HEXP-UBQG-GK4A
M3 - Article
C2 - 7429688
AN - SCOPUS:0019199128
SN - 0020-7314
VL - 10
SP - 523
EP - 550
JO - International Journal of Health Services
JF - International Journal of Health Services
IS - 4
ER -