Resumen de The Right of Recovery
The responsibility for medicinal access and care has progressively shifted from the biomedical clinic and doctor-patient relations to precarious social institutions and legal and experimental settings. These settings afford proxy public health care, triaging services, and care delivery often on the basis of emergency or strict criteria of eligibility, urgency, or need. In this essay I trace out a conceptual shift in biomedicine and global health from a focus on a right to health (often equated with the right to medicines) to the institutional dynamics that facilitate�or, more usually, obstruct�a right to recovery. The essay addresses this latter right as an unmet therapeutic potential and explores practical and conceptual challenges for what is known as the �sick role� from its original framing as social deviance to be biomedically controlled to a neglected but powerfully informative people-based social science of survival.
