The influence of other fields

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Throughout the 20th century numerous books have approached the problem of medicine, culture and society from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Many of these books have had an impact on theoretical debates in medical anthropology during the past half-century. We have chosen 16 documents to represent these contributions. They are drawn from the philosophical anthropology developed by physicians such as Binswanger and Pedro Laín Entralgo, philosophical approaches to the body and medicine such as the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty and the work of Georges Canguilhem, Michel Foucault and Illich, various psychoanalytic schools ranging from Freud to Deleuze and Guattari, the sociological contributions of Durkheim, Weber, Fleck, Parsons, Becker and Freidson, and the Marxist political economy of Gramsci and Navarro. Contributions from history include the work of Henry Sigerist and George Rosen's focus on medicalization, and from literary and cultural criticism, the essays of Susan Sontag.

Foucault, M. [1963] 1972. Naissance de la clinique. Presses universitaires de France.

Gramsci, A. [1930]1984.  Cuadernos de la Carcel 2. Los intelectuales y la organización de la cultura. Buenos Aires: Nueva Visión.

Illich, I., 1978. Nemesis medica. La expropiación de la  salud.México: Joaquin Mortiz/Planeta.

Laín-Entralgo, P., 1964. La relación médico enfermo, Madrid: Revista de Occidente.