SOSA 2503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Metal Toxicity, Water Pollution, Health Promotion

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 2503
• Professor: Fiona Martin

Document Summary

Overview: [from last class"s documentary]: you are what you eat (and breathe and drink): The emphasis on individual behaviour in health promotion: profiting from illness: It highlights the focus on individual health behaviours in the promotion of health. It also shows the way that illness is profitable for the pharmaceutical companies (cancer medications, supportive medications). It has been the subject of public attention when the government required the mill to replace its wastewater treatment highly polluted the lake: 2015 the mill had until 2021 to replace its water treatment plant. Illustrates the industrial production of contaminants that bring bad effects to health. Many of these substances have been proven to be harmful to human health. There are 3 fundamental components the air, water, and the land through which we get affected. The increase in environmental hazards is difficult to prove/disprove.