Women's Studies 2244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Multiple Drug Resistance, Symbolic Power, Social Forces
30 Aug 2020
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Pioneered the treatment of multidrug resistant (mdr) tuberculosis and hiv in haiti. A founding director of partners in health (pih). By what mechanisms, precisely, do social forces ranging from poverty to racism become embodied as individual experience? farmer: distributive justice fair distribution of resources, pragmatic solidarity solidarity + advocate for goods and services to help. Role of health care workers and researchers: understanding and action, not just experts and healers, also advocates, community-based approach to health care. A form of violence which corresponds with the systematic ways in which social structures and/or institutions kill people slowly by preventing them from meeting their basic human needs. Linked to other forms of violence (physical) and conflict. Inability to respond to needs of the suffering results in moral distress > when moral duties are compromised by structural conditions that place individuals and entire populations at risk of extreme suffering and death. Acknowledges that there are many aspects of suffering gender, race, class, etc.
