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This article considers the evolution in South Africa at the end of the last century. The apartheid regime collapsed and Nelson Mandela was finally released from captivity. The authority of Mandela is so great that the next presidential elections inevitably end in a resounding victory for him and his party, the ANC. Adapted from the source document.

After Ivan Illich produced his critique of the medical establishment, medicalisation became a synonym for a perverse evolution in Western health care. Since then, the concept has often been used to critique the perceived oppression of subjects by the health establishment, culminating in a call for resistance against this system. The world, including that of medicine, has changed profoundly since Illich launched his attack, and, consequently, so must our analysis of it. Today, instead of resisting medicine or medicalisation, most of us do everything we can to participate in it. Unless our governments prevent us, we consume medicine as much as possible, and thus overuse the system. Medicalisation is, therefore, at a turning point. In this article, we wish to unravel its current analytical potential, and attempt to renew the analysis in contemporary society. If social critique is still to be of importance in tomorrow.s medicine, much will depend upon the way in which we deal with this crucial question.

Focussed around three core themes †" capitalism, the metaphysics of democracy and aesthetics †" these 12 essays emphasise the potential of Nancy's political thought, and collectively situate it within a broader intellectual context which includes engag.