SOC243H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Essential Medicines, Development Aid, Nonperson
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Politics of life and abortion promoting life or choice: pro-choice vs pro-life debate, how are these issues framed politically, and how they are consistent with overarching themes. Language of risk is flexible, can be used to analyse institutions, movements and individuals: starts off as a movement, people act in ways for the movement, and through success movement becomes institutionalized and then has stabilities . Then people have patterns of actions: some movements start as top-down structures, and very rarely transitions to the bottom-up structure (client running the institutions) Provision of medicines how to poor countries get drugs for treatment: dangers and opportunities associated with medicine, outside ngos trying to prove conditions of medicine in a country malawi. Intervene upstream (try to promote economic development programs) to help health. Economic development programs and redistribution of resources is consistent with the fundamental cause idea (health driving by big broad issues: essential drugs and critical legacy.
