L48 Anthro 3283 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Birth Weight, Invisible Hand, Twinkie
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Apartheid era in south africa formalized system of racial segregation. This policy became social structures that became embodied in social health. Whites had of land and income. 40% infant mortality rate among blacks, 2. 7% whites. Social structures actual policies led to bio inequalities biological and epidemiological issues are being impacted by structural inequalities. Dental visits are racially stratified, cooli system bio inequalities, in present day this inequality has something to do with historical inequalities. Structuralism paul farmer definition thinks affirmity, affliction, illness are pathologies of power. Got it from definition of people in latin america. Arrangements are organization, institutional they are violent because there are bio inequalities: disparities in access to education, health care. Different than direct violence a boxing match, abuse. Violence is being caused by something a kind of an invisible hand, in which society is structured in a way that makes different outcomes. No indigenous people have access to health care.
