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Habermas, Critical Theory, and Health

Habermas, Critical Theory, and Health Habermas, Critical Theory, and Health Edited by G RAHAM S CAMBLER London: Routledge, 2001 Reviewed by H ENRY V ANDENBURGH Habermas, Critical Theory and Health is an excellent treatment of health and health services in modern social democracies, especially Britain. It generously re-orients the reader to the portions of Habermas’s work that potentially bear on medical issues, then provides a closer look at various aspects of the health system. Articles range from Scambler ’s detailed introduction to examinations of lay health knowledge, doctor- patient interaction, health politics, inequalities, health movements, rationing, Habermas versus Foucault on health, and issues of democracy and health. All are provocative and well worth close reading. Scambler’s introduction is admirable in that he pointedly marshals aspects of Habermas’s wide-ranging œuvre in order to provide a basis for discussion. Key, he writes, are Habermas’s re-organisation of Marx’s emphasis on work into a work-communications ontology, the rise of a bourgeois public sphere enabling constitutional democracy, and the possibility of uncoerced ideal speech situations, always a latent expectation in language. Scambler does not neglect dark aspects to which Habermas points: for example, colonisation of the lifeworld (where people exist and communicate) by the system of accumulation and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Historical Materialism Brill

Habermas, Critical Theory, and Health

Vandenburgh, Henry
Historical Materialism , Volume 12 (4): 473 – Jan 1, 2004
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© 2004 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Habermas, Critical Theory, and Health Edited by G RAHAM S CAMBLER London: Routledge, 2001 Reviewed by H ENRY V ANDENBURGH Habermas, Critical Theory and Health is an excellent treatment of health and health services in modern social democracies, especially Britain. It generously re-orients the reader to the portions of Habermas’s work that potentially bear on medical issues, then provides a closer look at various aspects of the health system. Articles range from Scambler ’s detailed introduction to examinations of lay health knowledge, doctor- patient interaction, health politics, inequalities, health movements, rationing, Habermas versus Foucault on health, and issues of democracy and health. All are provocative and well worth close reading. Scambler’s introduction is admirable in that he pointedly marshals aspects of Habermas’s wide-ranging œuvre in order to provide a basis for discussion. Key, he writes, are Habermas’s re-organisation of Marx’s emphasis on work into a work-communications ontology, the rise of a bourgeois public sphere enabling constitutional democracy, and the possibility of uncoerced ideal speech situations, always a latent expectation in language. Scambler does not neglect dark aspects to which Habermas points: for example, colonisation of the lifeworld (where people exist and communicate) by the system of accumulation and

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