HLTC05H3 Lecture Notes - Biomedicine, Relative Change And Difference, Social Inequality
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Quiz # 1: material factors in human health do not include: housing and support groups, employment and income and sanitation, private transportation and food, clothing and medicines. Structural violence: how we view ill health. Anthropology of the body (commodification: we have to view ill health as just a biological product, people sell parts of the body such as vital organs, made a body another thing to trade. Notion of risk (and blame: linking micro to macro, local to abroad, how globalization affects an individual. Linking local context to broader analysis, i. e. , materialist factors placed within a broader geopolitical context; globalization, macroeconomics. Role of therapeutic systems (biomedicine) in fortifying inequalities/social hierarchies: biomedical vs. social health on disease, development of drugs, acts a structural violence. Very effective way we can think about micro macro linkage to globalization and a person"s ill health. Having a case study to help people relate to it.
