HLTC05H3 Lecture Notes - Multiple Drug Resistance, Henry Gastineau, Death Flights
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Reading: farmer & gastineau rethinking health and human rights: time for a paradigm shift . Mdrtb(multi-drug resistant drugs) are not untreatable, just need to treat with drugs. A narrow legal approach to health and human rights can obscure the nature of violations, thereby enfeebling our best responses to them. Pragmatic solidarity: a synergy of health and human rights. Public health and access to medical care are social and economic rights. Farmer: i do not subscribe to cultural relativism when it comes to violations of human dignity just because they are a long-standing tradition. Violence against individuals is embedded in entrenched structural violence. Pragmatic solidarity: the raid deployment of our tools and resources to improve the health and well-being of those who suffer this violence. Solidarity: desire to make common cause with those in need. We need to move from sentiments to actions. International human rights is a modern phenomenon beginning with nuremberg trials.
