ANTHROP 3HI3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Biopolitics, Body Politic, 2010 Haiti Earthquake
21 Apr 2016
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Implementing public policy and making decisions on behalf of the entire population that may or may not be in their best interest: everyone is affected by this level of power and control. Prevent people from getting treatment from a biomedical perspective. Priscilla medeiros, 3: new hiv/aids program promotes hiv counselling and testing, maternal health services, Tb diagnosis and treatment, and the diagnosis and treatment of stis: highly successful and caused a decline in the prevalence of these diseases, the government and ngos were working together. Not free of charge, but there was still a positive outcome. In this case it is the poor and impoverished in haiti: perpetuation of structural violence, haiti politics has undergone social unrest and turmoil, oppression by dictators. Poverty is a by-product of structural violence: 2. Structural violence impacts one"s ability to receive education: haiti"s literacy rate is 60. 7, education sector in haiti has limited financial support, costs 2000usd to receive an education in haiti.
