inequality and the harm it causes
Featured · Read · Structural Violence as main theme · United States
This might be the best book dealing with social issues that I’ve read in a long, long time. It is also the only inequality, poverty, and global health related book,[…]
Featured · International · Read · War / Conflict
I stumbled onto this book serendipitously, browsing on Amazon for books related to books related to some book on El Salvador that I’d enjoyed. From a literary standpoint it’s not[…]
Development in Poor Countries · Featured · International · Read
This book is either the biggest fraud or the most honest accounting of corruption on development in Haiti that I’ve ever come across. The stories recounted within are so unbelievable[…]
Biographies / Personal Stories · Featured · Read · Structural Violence as main theme
This is truly my favorite book in the entire world. I keep a handful of uses copies on my bookshelf, and will thrust this book into the hands of any[…]
Featured · Health · Read · Structural Violence as main theme
Paul Farmer is an anthropologist and physician, head of the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard University, and United Nations Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti. He founded Partners in Health[…]
To understand the commodification of the body we must ask ourselves what the body is — what it represents, what it means. Each body means and represents different things to[…]
“In the United States, a rumor that AIDS is part of a government conspiracy to control the population of minorities circulates persistently among African American communities…” notes AIDS rumors, imaginary[…]
Clown Doctors: Shaman Healers of Western Medicine makes the argument that the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit — a troupe of performers who dress as clowns in white coats[…]
“Radical contextualization: contributions to an anthropology of racial/ethnic health disparities” by Chapman and Berggren argues that the world is plagued by a system of global apartheid, wherein privileged classes enjoy[…]
Recently presented data show that the more deadly (ER and PR negative) type of breast cancer tumors are more common in women of color. Black women had more than double[…]
When a baby dies from an entirely preventable disease, I can’t think of a better example of structural violence. This short video segment speaks for itself: Watch Losing a Baby[…]
Not much time to write about this now, but wanted to share before I forgot. Also, this. And this. I have a lot of backlog to write about. Oh yeah,[…]
Two great talks from Robert Jensen:
There’s a pretty good talk on YouTube, from Ralph Nader and Bruce Fein, posted by Harvard Law School. Nader makes a compelling case for the continuing abridgement of freedoms in[…]
Salon has a pretty digestible write-up about the conflict of interest between TV military experts (“retired generals” and such) who are shown to viewers as neutral advisors while privately profiting[…]