Can Başak
a Department of Sociology , Koc University , Istanbul , Turkey.
Med Anthropol. 2016 Nov-Dec;35(6):477-488. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2016.1207641. Epub 2016 Jul 13.
In June 2013, protests that erupted in Gezi Park in Istanbul, Turkey were met with state violence, mobilizing hundreds of native physicians to deliver emergency medical care. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in makeshift clinics during these protests, interviews with Gezi physicians and analyses of recent laws restricting emergency care provision, in this article I explore the criminalization of clinical practice through legal and coercive means of the government and the delegitimization of state violence through clinical and expert witnessing practices of physicians. As I show, material, legal, and discursive articulations of the idiom of medical neutrality revolve around the tension between medical praxis as neutrality and medical praxis as political participation. I offer a reconsideration of medical humanitarian and human rights regimes in terms of their consequences for inciting, documenting and restricting state violence.
2013年6月，土耳其伊斯坦布尔盖齐公园爆发的抗议活动遭到了国家暴力镇压，这促使数百名当地医生提供紧急医疗救助。本文借助在这些抗议活动期间临时诊所进行的人种志田野调查、对盖齐医生的访谈以及对近期限制紧急医疗服务提供的法律的分析，探讨了政府通过法律和强制手段将临床实践定罪，以及医生通过临床和专家见证实践使国家暴力丧失合法性的问题。如我所示，医学中立这一习语在物质、法律和话语层面的表达，围绕着医学实践作为中立性与医学实践作为政治参与之间的紧张关系展开。我从它们对煽动、记录和限制国家暴力所产生的后果方面，重新审视了医学人道主义和人权制度。
