HLST 4010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Global Health, Flattening, Crystal Ball
14 Oct 2020
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Week 1 reading- history"s crystal ball: ellen amster. 4:43 pm: ellen j amster, "history"s crystal ball: what the past can tell us about covid-19 and our future" brighter world (june 2020): open access at: https://brighterworld. mcmaster. ca/articles/historys-crystal-ball-what-the-past-can- tell-us-about-covid-19-and-our-future/ Lessons ignored: poverty and racism make you sick and dead. Inequality of income, housing, work and opportunity are the inequities that made death a social disease for social reformers chadwick, villerm and virchow. We now call these factors the social determinants of health. : also can lead to structural racism being a death sentence especially affecting. If history shows one thing, it"s that rich people and politicians do not want to pay for sewers, schools, hospitals, old age pensions or worker safety. The deaths of the poor themselves did not move politicians in france, germany or britain to big policy changes: and cholera pandemic also showed elites their vulnerability.
