SOSA 1200X Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Psychoneuroimmunology, Universal Design, Talcott Parsons

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 1200X
• Professor: Christopher Helland

Document Summary

Big farm: the greater danger of serious illness to workers and locals are products of the practices and attitudes of industrial farms and the environmentally lax governments they deal with. Iatrogenesis: clinical iatrogenesis, critical iatrogenesis, social iatrogenesis. The athabasca tar sands tailing ponds are said so huge they are visible to the naked eye from space now called the largest man-made object on earth) Fort chipewyan: 250km downstream along the athabasca river from the industrial center of the alberta tar sands. It is estimated that 26 000 000 liters a day of toxic waste seeps from the tailing ponds every day. Local fish, vegetables, animals, and drinking water are contaminated. Cancer rates in fort chipewyan are 31% higher then they should be (2006 data) The government is monitoring the situation?? (cannot do anything so it has been accepted) The social construction of health and well being. Cancer is still the leading cause of death in canada.