the marshaling of medicine’s cultural authority

[GoodTaste]

Medicalizing the Constitution?
M.G. Bloche
Courts and physicians need to be mindful about the use and misuse of medical-science findings in constitutional conflicts, the cloaking of moral views in scientific guise, and the marshaling of medicine’s cultural authority as a means of persuasion.

Source: New England Journal of Medicine


Does "the marshaling of medicine’s cultural authority" mean "the arranging/using of medicine’s cultural authority"?

 

[5jj]

it's more like 'bringing together and making a fighting force of medicine's cultural authority'.

 

[GoodTaste]

Does "authority" here mean "power" (rather than a person in power)?

 

[Tarheel]

Not exactly. It is closer, I think, to influence.

 

[5jj]

If someone has authority, they have a quality which makes other people take notice of what they say.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/authority