Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Structural Violence, Maternal Death, Social Forces

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 1002A/B
• Professor: Jessica Polzer

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Key concepts: social suffering, structural violence, constrained agency, preferential option for the poor, multi-axial model of suffering, moral distress, universal declaration of human rights, core notions of human rights, mainstreaming, human rights approach to health. Paul farmer-wrote the article assigned for this class: physician and anthropologist, pioneered the treatment of multi drug resistant (mdr) tuberculosis and hiv in haiti, community-based approach to h-care, founding director of partners in health (pih) H pital universitaire de mirebalais: by what mechanisms do social forces ranging from poverty to racism become embodied as individual experience? . Preferential option for the poor": term stems from catholic liberation theology, guiding principles: Not just experts and healers, also advocates: to act as an advocate. [ ] this is true even when spectacular human rights violations are at issue (farmer, 2004, p. 31) Acephie joseph"s and chouchou louis"s stories illustrate some of the mechanisms through which large-scale social forces crystallize into the sharp, hard surfaces of individual suffering.