Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Partners In Health, Structural Violence, Multiple Drug Resistance
10 May 2016
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Pioneered the treatment of multidrug resistant (mdr) tuberculosis and hiv in haiti. Founding director of partners in health (pih) http://www. pih. org/pages/mirebalais. By what mechanisms, precisely, do social forces ranging from poverty to racism become embodied as individual experience? (farmer, p. 30) Distributive justice fair distribution of power and resources. Pragmatic solidarity solidarity is making something in common as a group; pragmatic solidarity is the desire to make common cause with those in need/suffering. Role of health care workers and researchers act as advocates for the need of the poor. Use community health workers provided with training, which in turn can work with their residents. A form of violence which corresponds with the systematic ways in which social structures and/or institutions kill people slowly by preventing them from meeting their basic human needs. Causes conflict and other forms of violence (e. g. direct violence) Economic policies that foster oppression, etc. can be structural violence.
