Approaches of the Industrial and Financial Medical Complex (IFMC) in tennis, cycling and boxing in Colombia

Authors

  • Jaime Alberto Mendez Castillo Corporación Universitaria Iberoamericana, Colombia
  • Sandra Milena Araque Jaramillo Universidad Nacional de Colombia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14482/sun.39.03.951.753

Keywords:

medicalization, commodification, Sports Nutritional Sciences, Suplementos Nutricionais, financial and industrial medical complex

Abstract

Since its beginnings in the mid-20th century in the United States of America, the industrial and financial medical complex (IFMC) has been finding different niches of accumulation and profitability as transformations have occurred in the global capitalist system. Sport is one of the scenarios in which the IFMC has gradually come to operate with different actors, who in the 21st century is already accumulating millions of dollars at the expense of athletes, their stripped and exploited bodies, as well as their health and life.  In this sense, the purpose of this article is to contribute to some reflections on the relationship between the IFMC and sport as a social field of capitalist disputes.

Author Biographies

Published

2023-11-24

Issue

Section

ARTICLES FOR REFLECTION

How to Cite

Approaches of the Industrial and Financial Medical Complex (IFMC) in tennis, cycling and boxing in Colombia . (2023). SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL SALUD UNINORTE, 39(3), 1208-1224. https://doi.org/10.14482/sun.39.03.951.753

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