SOSC 1801 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Commodification, Making Money, Universal Health Care
30 Nov 2015
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A reasonable disagreement or dispute about matters of fact. Are less interested in who"s right or wrong, rather than finding what a controversy tells us about the things that are happening in the world. Market-based medicine and commodification of health fundamental inequalities in health care systems in the global north. Global south: developing countries/ 3rd worlds worlds. Helps us understand the key connectors that run in health care. A big public issue primary because it is related to health care. Health insurance relates to whether or not you"ll get decent deliveries in all settings global north, global south systems healthcare. Paul farmer states: - we must acknowledge that the commodification of medicine invariably punishes the vulnerable . Bought the rights to the drug, increased the cost of that pill by. Old drug (been around 60-70 years) barely used. About making money: hyped up the drug.
