ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Global Health, Neoliberalism, Situation Two
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Health as a lens through which to analyse broader social questions particularly relating to relations of power (fassin: global health has emerged as a whole new way of thinking; a new field of investigation. Anthropology as a tool to produce knowledge in the service of health interventions (pfeiffer and nichter) Colonialism: the conquest and control of other people"s lands and goods (ania. Imperialism: a) global system for capitalist domination (marxist/leninist), b) process of political and/or economic domination of other peoples, their lands and natural resources (loomba) Technical approaches rather than attention to social and economic contexts. External expertise required to help southern countries to develop ; local knowledge disregarded. The international dimensions of health and health dimensions of international political and economic relations . Not just as business as usual, but as far more business than usual. Context o increasing investment in global health , erosion of state health care systems, proliferation of ngos.
