DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2017.v05i10.005

Pages: 1350-1359

Deriving hermeneutic impetus from poststructuralist and postmodernist theories, the concepts of illness and health have assumed the status of interdisciplinary discourse, where various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences have brought the social role of medicine under critical scrutiny. This has created a trajectory within which the social, cultural, psychological and even political dimensions to illness are theorised. This paper argues that unfavourable socio-political factors are strong enough to induce illness because they depress the psyches of people. The paper champions the medicalisation of society as it seeks to appraise the ‘medical pulse’ of post-colonial Libya as presented in Hisham Matar’s In The Country of Men. It also seeks to ‘diagnose’ the social vision and private anxieties of Hisham Matar for post-colonial Libya.