ANT358H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Participatory Democracy, Oncology, Paternalism
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Lecture 5: politics of pain and care for the terminally ill. Morality in different forms - paternalism, advocating for patients, speaking pain in times of silencing, laughter, form of citizenship - national cake. Adding humanizing aspect to cancer (deadly, graphic, dehumanizing illness) Recontextualize and provide a new meaning (examples of laughter as social means to shape forms of palliation) Provide new way of rationing for care. Ensuring patients receive care in some form despite inefficiencies. Cultural and linguistic brokers between clinicians etc. and patients. Care, pain, death = deeply social experiences. Ailing sick bodies provide the ground in which politics and sociality = enacted. Wider reflection of contextual particularities of a place and time. Botswana"s success is rooted in the history of participatory democracy (pre-colonization) Nursing = state"s commitment to public health care. Cultural forms of equity and distribution (botho) Romanticized narrative that is nostalgic; influences how government resources = distributed (most in need)
