L48 Anthro 3283 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Jim Yong Kim, Social Medicine, Prenatal Care
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Critiques might be public health/environmental costs, what are some non-consumer related forms of financial redistribution, what are non-philanthropic forms of redistribution. Early 1990s, paul farmer and jim kim. Got a grant because came up with a model called accompaniment deliver high tech advanced therapies and tb antibiotics to haiti (poorest country in hemisphere) Accompaniment becomes the model for bringing meds with the story or the structural/social issues logistics of linking meds to people in contexts where infrastructure would make that difficult. Empowering nurses and pmf; if can"t get expensive doctors then you can get nurses and medical workers to do the work. Hospital would be the last resort, want to engage people in communities. Don"t care if you can"t tell time, we will set up an infrastructure that will tell time for them. Accompaniment, solidarity in action religious and political dimensions.
