The hierarchies of medicines

Gilles Bibeau

pp. 207-219

in: Beatrix Pfleiderer, Gilles Bibeau (eds), Anthropologies of medicine, Wiesbaden, Vieweg+Teubner, 1991

Abstract

It is generally assumed that protest leads to more protest: it would be in the nature of opposition to create more opposition and to engender division. Conservative Catholic historians who studied the Reformation have assumed that the rejection of a central Roman authority in Christianity led inevitably to a multiplicity of reformers and the formation of national churches. Specialists of political sciences have also often stressed the natural multivocality of all ideological movements when they oppose a dominant and well-organized ideology.