HLTH260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: Social Exclusion, Structural Violence, Medical Anthropology

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH260
• Professor: Mark Dolson

Document Summary

Margaret lock, professor emeritus of medical anthropology, mcgill university, departments of. Social studies of medicine, faculty of medicine, and dept. of anthropology. Biological difference among people results from bodily responses to differing environments. Such differences are not genetically determined, and a great number are of no consequence, although some bear profoundly on health and illness. So, we"ve seen that neoliberalism (and its political/economic exclusions) is a very broad determinant of health in that its policies and philosophies are beyond any doubt structurally violent for many people across the globe. And this structural violence has produced many forms of social suffering But neoliberalism is also implicated in another set of exclusionary social, economic, political, and cultural processes. The integration and flow of resources, information, labour, culture(s) and capital into (and through) global networks. Might also be "imposed interconnection across difference" pushed forward by a neoliberal policy-related agenda Things can get very interesting when we look at just one aspect of globalization.