GGRB28H3 : Packard reading notes

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Colonial medicine created to protect colonizers & not local indigenous people. Sometimes extended to workers but the goal was to keep them healthy enough to work. Therefore health was measured through productivity and was only accessible in urban areas. Treatment was administered like a technological fix (treat the infection instead of bringing about social and economic reforms that may prevent future instances) After ww2 tropical health (or health in african countries) became a tool in fighting communism, to increase production (to rebuild europe), and to expand the market. Few voices were available in the united nations to speak for the concerns of african people (only liberia had a rep) Un, who, & unicef failed to consider social/ economic reasons for diseases and did not recognize indigenous health practices. When countries became independent they were often taken over by local elites who conformed to western ideals and policies which may have widened the inequality gap.

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