Wick Livia
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2008 Sep;32(3):328-57. doi: 10.1007/s11013-008-9098-y.
This article explores the intersection between the professional politics of medicine and national politics during the second Palestinian uprising, which erupted in 2000. Through an analysis of stories about childbirth from actors in the birth process--obstetricians, midwives and birth mothers--it examines two overlapping movements that contributed to building the public health infrastructure, the movement of sumud or steadfastness (1967-87) and the popular health movement (1978-94), as well as their contemporary afterlife. Finally, it deals with relations between medicine and governance through an analysis of the interpenetration of medical and political authority. The birth stories bring to light two contrasting visions of a nation in the context of restrictions on mobility and a ground chopped up by checkpoints. The quasi-postcolonial condition of Palestine as popular construct, institutional protostate organism, and the lived experience of its experts and of its gendered subjects underlie the ethnographic accounts.
本文探讨了2000年爆发的第二次巴勒斯坦起义期间医学专业政治与国家政治的交叉点。通过分析分娩过程中的参与者——产科医生、助产士和产妇——讲述的分娩故事,本文考察了两个相互重叠的运动,它们为公共卫生基础设施的建设做出了贡献,即“sumud”或坚定运动(1967 - 1987年)和大众健康运动(1978 - 1994年),以及它们在当代的延续。最后,本文通过分析医疗权威与政治权威的相互渗透来探讨医学与治理之间的关系。这些分娩故事揭示了在行动受限和被检查站分割的土地背景下,关于一个国家的两种截然不同的愿景。巴勒斯坦作为一种大众建构、机构雏形国家机体的准后殖民状况,以及其专家和不同性别人群的生活经历构成了这些民族志叙述的基础。