ANTC61H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Indep, Symbolic Power, Ethnography
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E. g. moffat"s article about obesity: is it fair to only think about obesity in bio. terms, no we should consider soc. /cult. Ma; results are delib. trying to be used to bring attention to health prob"s around the world or to solve health prob"s a/r the world. Developed by paul farmer (not created by him ) Moves beyond why poverty leads to health inequalities. E. g. factory crash in bangladesh (poor labour conditions); access to hc, poor sanitation, lack of infrastructures (diarrhea), malnutrition (underlying cause of most health ineq"s) Tells us how poverty leads to health inequalities; how people on the ground live with poverty every day. The only reason hiv exists in haiti is b/c of hist. oppression. Slavery (until 1791 was a french colony primarily using slaves to grow sugar); revolt - France and us created embargo stopping trade destroyed the economy; forced haitians to pay back millions of dollars f/ defying slavery.
