Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Structural Violence, Multiple Drug Resistance, Distributive Justice
13 Dec 2012
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Key concepts & people: social suffering, structural violence, partners in health, paul farmer, multiaxial model of suffering, pragmatic solidarity, preferential optionfor the poor, moral distress v2. Paul farmer: physician & anthropologist, based in boston (brighma & Women"s hospital, harvard u. ) and rural haiti: co-founder of partners in health , pioneered the treatment of multidrug resistant (mdr) tuberculosis and hiv in haiti, community-based approach to health-care v3. Partners in health: mission: provide a preferential option for the poor in health care, mission is both medical and moral, mission is based on the idea of solidarity rather than on charity alone. When our patients are ill our team will do whatever it takes to make them well just as we would do if a member of our own families or we ourselves were ill. v4. Preferential option for the poor": term stems from catholic liberation theology, special concern for poor and vulnerable persons, guiding principles:
