L48 Anthro 3283 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: The Final Inch, Poliomyelitis Eradication, Iron Lung
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Film: the final inch, by irene brodsky (2009): Just a reminder that tomorrow (friday) is the in-class film screening of "the final inch," a 38 min documentary about polio vaccination initiatives in india. As noted in the prompt pdf, this is a "critique and affirmation" paper. As with all movies, there are pros and cons here in terms of how illness, disease, global health, and so forth are represented, depicted. The task is to produce a paper with the usual format, an intro, plus 4 paragraphs that enumerate strengths and shortcomings. Polio: every major, developed global country signed on. In 1998, the who launched an initiative to eradicate polio where it lay. Incidences, per year : 873 india, 32 pakistan, 17 afghanistan. Idea that it isn"t about the message (about telling people something), but that it is about the messenger: these people have bought into the idea of eradication something that can really be done.
