Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Structural Violence, Medicalization, Civilizing Mission
3 Sep 2018
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Story of a first nations child whose siblings were taken away by white people to residential schools. Watched his parents develop alcoholism and depression over losing their kids. Grandmother tried to maintain their indian ways by returning them to the land. Land was where their ancestors had been killed. When saul"s brother returned from the school (ran away) he had developed tb. He died after some time, his parents and grandmother fought about how to deal with his afterlife journey. Parents wanted to take him to church for a burial with a coffin. Grandmother wanted to return him to the land with a traditional ceremony. Geographies of suffering are unevenly distributed and connected to inequalities. Structural violence, not acutely experienced physically, but rather systematic recurring inequalities that harm senses of wel l-being. Sickness as a "language of the organs through which nature, society, and culture speak" Pain is a manifestation of their social/relation conditions and shows their suffering.
