GGRB28H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Health Professional, Psychological Trauma, Internally Displaced Person
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Critical epistemology: way of knowing, assumptions of underlying are actions. Social cultural and history believes embedded in our society let us blame certain groups. Framer wants us to critically think about how we think about the terminology of emerging infectious diseases. Framing issues is problematic not all diseases fit in that category. He argues that tb is not new in the developing countries and it never left the developing countries like haiti. Epidemiological transition makes death due to infectious diseases in the third world countries being normalized. The reason we are using these concepts is because of power. People in power are now affected by tb again; we can find tb in new york or airports, where we don"t expect to see tb. He"s critical about how these concepts are being used. Who"s using them and where the power is. Because it"s the people in power determinate what is re-emerging disease.
