IDSB04H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Management System, Capital Flight, Sustainable Development Goals
1 Mar 2017
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Chapter 3 political economy of health and development. There is no universally accepted approach to understanding health and illness. Health and illness are view at an individual level and in mostly biological terms where the body is conceptualized as a machine with constituent processes and parts (ex. Genes, organ systems) that can be manipulated or repaired through technical interventions. Health is understood as mainly the absence of disease (curative) rather than integrated (social, psychological, cultural) sense of well-being. This decontextualizes health, illness and health from the social and political environment and from the subjective experience of the human. This approach is highly connected to the commodification of health meaning that they are concerned about treating health as a good or service that can be bought and sold which has made biomedicine a huge business enterprise. Magic bullet treatments are treatments that provide a fast and easy medical technologies, drugs and devices.
