ANT358H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ethnomedicine, Biomedicine, Social Inequality
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Elimination of leprosy on paper, not the ground - claims didn"t reflect local reality. Who claims elimination -> funding has stopped. Stigmatized -> cover the patch indicative of leprosy -> once it is left untreated and reaches point of disability, it is very hard to recover. Treatment according to the chain of infections. Makes it seem like the local people have a lack of knowledge of how easily treatable the disease is. Leprosy colony: build small houses for those expelled from their homes. More focused on ground up; campaigns from government. Pro ngo"s, unlike articles which emphasized the issue of only focusing on one topic with. Cholera and leprosy = premodern, old diseases, poverty, filthy. Blame the victim (farmer) - calling against blame; argues that biosocial analysis and critical examination of historical processes allows us to understand how systems not individuals create inequalities. Not individual decision making to create poverty and inequality.
