ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the practice and teaching of the Paediatrics in the Post-Invasion Iraq. The proposition of the research is that Iraqi paediatric care should clinically address the 'psycho-social' needs of the children, and that child psychology should be incorporated into paediatric training in the teaching hospitals. Gramsci posits that in a capitalist liberal democracy bourgeois control of the state's economic resources is insufficient to explain why the subaltern groups consent to the class domination. Hegemony is a tacit form of leadership rooted in a dominant set of ideas and the concepts that determines the social and cultural practices that constitute every-day life. A teleological element to the Gramsci's thought suggests that the human being is progressing through history to reach a place free of the power of class domination, a transformation and self-realization ultimately staged with regard to the means and mode of production.
