SOSA 2503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Global Health, Environmental Racism, Health Promotion

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 2503
• Professor: Fiona Martin

Document Summary

The role of physical environment in the production of illness (and health) - cancer: health harming chemicals, water, air and land pollution, environmental racism. Health promotion and public health, two approaches. Critiques of the first approach overlap between health and morality. Paper mill the certain kinds of waste management processes taking place in the mill. This phenomenon is so common: the placement of dumps/having some sort of toxic disposal sites next to poor, racialized communities environmental racism . Idea that we live in an increasingly interconnected world through globalization and that this brings possibly grave implications. The paper describes: we find 2 different sets of scholarships (bodies of research). The first is interested in how globalization, or the fact that we live in an increasingly interconnected world diseases can spread from one place to another with increasing frequencies and devastating effects. The focus of global health is on the spread of diseases (sars, ebola, tuberculosis).