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Syncleptocratic Webs of the Global/Local Life Devastation: an Attempt Towards Defining the Mechanisms of Neoliberal Destructive Actions

Through an analytical discourse of critical medical anthropology, this paper gives examples of the growingly difficult conditions in global and local maintaining health, healthy environments and effective health systems. It connects the mentioned states with two seldom acknowledged facts: a) that medicine and ecology, regardless of the exactness in all their multiple scientific areas, are nevertheless parts of the general cultural system where the exactness is often abused ; b) that the abusage within this same cultural system creates unproductive processes of action within which documents of global arrangements from large international summits (to the level of local ones) are declaratively created and even more declaratively conducted, while the continuous discrepancy between the state of worsening health and unstable environments in comparison to the growingly powerful technology and ever-present numerous documents of 'stabilizing states' prevail. To explain the end results and intertwinements of these two facts one must penetrate into the mechanisms of creating generally worsening conditions of sustainability on the level of individuals, populations and environments, however in a way which analyses and arguments that they are only a part of a declarative discourse of sustaining health, as a concept that is in the past three decades present as an accompanying phenomena of the culture of healthiness, but not also activated in all geographical, economical and political dimensions. Since this is closely connected to the functioning of the total market liberalization and the conduct of neoliberal model determinants, new concepts need to be sought to explain the unhealthy neoliberal realities we live in/through. In this course of critical analysis, the neologism syncleptocracy is drawn, in a lack of a more powerful descriptive word, with the function of providing a close-to-reality explanation of the reasons why today’s capable Western (Bio)Medicine, regardless of it’s Hi-tech state and/or culture sensitiveness and/or support for the Human Rights issues (etc.), never reaches the designated populations in need. The synergistic activities of pan-cleptocratic circles (syncleptocracy) is present in all domains of human activity and has become one of the most rampant features of the neoliberal market model, with the most devastating results visible in the domain of (biological) human suffering. Simultaneously, it is necessary to further discuss the ways in which, by falling into the many traps of neoliberalism, the growingly pecuniary oriented Western (Bio)Medicine primarily supports the webs of financial interest of a few, rather than the Rights to healthy environments and health of the growingly poorer global many.

health; market liberalization; Western (Bio)medicine; syncleptocracy

Rad je dio šireg opsega profesionalnog rada što ga autorica obnaša u funkciji Tajnice UNESCO Komisije za Medicinsku antropologiju i epidemiologiju Internacionalne Unije antropoloških i etnoloških znanosti (Commission on Medical Anthropology and Epidemiology of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences/UNESCO).