GINS 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: World Health Organization, In Vitro Fertilisation, Freedos
10 Nov 2016
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Part 1 introduction: the globalization of knowledge and science. Globalization facilitates the fow of many things across borders at great speed and some of those things cannot be easily regulated by the state. One aspect of flows that we will explore includes: Borderless diseases (say something about eat of these) Diseases have been known to have moved with impunity: The outsourcing of drug trials to poorer countries has resulted in the exploration of vulnerable groups. The transmission of diseases across borders is not a novel phenomenon. However, it has become much more common in recent years. The spread of such diseases indicate the difficulty involved in checking flow of disease-causing pathogens across borders. Refers to the various srtuctural, ideological, social relational and practical obstacles and apprehensions facing people who need to make difficult and sometimes critical decisions (marcia inhorn) At the heart of the readings this week are deeper questions concerning:
