democracy

liquidity

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

anthropologist

medical anthropologist

university professor

University of Southern California

innovator in the field of

biosecurity

medical anthropology

Science and Technology Studies (STS)

security

STS scholar

anthropology

is opposed to inherited elites and in practice, gives little weight to education.

Jackson's equal political policy became known as 'Jacksonian Democracy', subsequent to ending what he termed a 'monopoly' of government by elites. Jeffersonians opposed inherited elites but favored educated men while the Jacksonians gave little weight to education. (wikipedia) jacksonianism is a form of popularism that promoted the strength of the presidency and executive branch at the expense of Congress, while also seeking to broaden the public's participation in government In contrast to the Jeffersonian era, Jacksonian democracy promoted the strength of the presidency and executive branch at the expense of Congress, while also seeking to broaden the public's participation in government. The Jacksonians demanded elected (not appointed) judges and rewrote many state constitutions to reflect the new values. In national terms they favored geographical expansion, justifying it in terms of Manifest Destiny. There was usually a consensus among both Jacksonians and Whigs that battles over slavery should be avoided. (wikipeda The meritocratic claim that people are paid what they are worth in the market is a tautology that begs the questions of how the market is organized and whether that organization is morally and economically defensible. In truth, income and wealth increasingly depend on who has the power to set the rules of the game. THE PROBLEM IS NOT THE SIZE OF GOVERNMENT BUT WHOM THE GOVERNMENT IS FOR. THE REMEDY IS FOR THE VAST MAJORITY TO REGAIN INFLUENCE OVER HOW THE MARKET IS ORGANIZED. As I elaborate in Part III, the solution is not to create more or less government. The problem is not the size of government but whom the government is for.The remedy is for the vast majority to regain influence over how the market is organized. This will require a new countervailing power, allying the economic interests of the majority who have not shared the economy's gains. The current left-right battle pitting the 'free market' against government is needlessly and perversely preventing such an alliance from forming.

is, in discussions of mental health, standardized diagnostic categories which allow for the smooth workings of global drug markets and participation in global psychiatric research.

Andrew Lakoff, a medical anthropologist who conducted research in Argentina, has written about the complex negotiations that had to be undertaken to convince the Argentine psychiatric milieu to adopt the diagnostic categories of the third edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III). Argentinian psychiatry remained under the sway of Lacanian philosophy and was deeply mistrustful of standardized approaches necessitated by the adoption of the DSM-III. Without the diagnostic equivalence afforded by these standardized categories what Lakoff calls 'liquidity,' drawing on a metaphor from economics not only would it be difficult to market drugs specifically indicated to treat disorders as defined by the DSM, but it would also be difficult to participate in global psychiatric research (p173) . .. In Lock, Margaret and Nguyen, Vinh-Kim (2010). An Anthropology of Biomedicine

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