SOCA02H3 Lecture 9: Lecture 9
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Term of the week - american heroin epidemic: Health: un definition: a state of complete, physical, mental and social well-being. Health is as much social as biological: related to, social inequalities, technology, social resources, social constructionism. Health and stratification rich live upstream: toronto vs. countryside, race. Income and obesity: bottom 20, gender, drug testing, poor blacks have higher cancer rates and live near toxic sites. We are major engineers of viral traffic : often unaware of it, pathways of viruses: sinks, rain forests, mice fields, population density, viruses need a reservoir or die out, stepping off a plane, war, napoleon, 11918 spanish flu. Scientific control of disease: us surgeon general in 1967 claims contagious diseases will be wiped out, vaccines, antibiotics. In the past, consumption, tb, lung disease and child age was at the top of the leading causes of death in 1881. Now its heart attack, contrary artery diseases, lung and throat cancer and stroke.
