HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Celecoxib, Sildenafil, Structural Adjustment
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So that happy swedish man says that everyone can reach the wealth/health side of the scale. Ferguson says some bullshit about colonialism bringing medicine or something. Ferguson also says some shit that supersiion isn"t history, because it"s not raional. The ignorance he is deriding is the ignorance he is perpetuaing-> he says this medicine woman doesn"t know anything about medicine, but he doesn"t know anything about history! It"s money, the money to provide increasing public health. The idea that keeping supersiious and irraional beliefs is holding back countries in africa from having a higher life expectancy is as bullshit the literacy thing. Punning on names of drugs helps the eicacy to a certain extent-> viagra, celebrex, etc. You trust the name, the colour of the ill. Fear of the name increases fear of the thing itself. Paient-> someone to whom something happens-> opposite of an agent.
