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Food for an inquiring thought Human Rights Reader 268 -Liberalism defends the interests of the intellectual elite; conservatism defends the interests of the financial and industrial elite. The question is: Who defends the interests of human rights? (…and are we a minority or a majority?). -Historically, in good part, the market has been [...]
April blog Claudio Schuftan One of my heros is Rudolf Virchow. He was a social visionary who in the late 1840s, articulated the social – and the economic and political – determinants of ill-health, malnutrition and misery. He did this with, I dare say, even more bite and relevance than has the [...]
1. The international labor division consists of some countries specializing in winning and others in losing; the latter continue to work as servants of the former. 2. The defeat of the have-nots has always been implicit in the victory of the haves; the labor of the have-nots has always generated their own poverty since it [...]
Food for a negotiated thought Human Rights Reader 246 -Ultimately, by using the human rights-based framework, we strive to negotiate a new social contract [...]
Human Rights Reader 236 Let’s call a spade a spade: Globalization is a project of the North to globalize its corporate power. The market fundamentalism at its base is not only a system of ideas, but also an algorithm for restructuring state institutions; it shifts responsibility for social provision away from the state and [...]
1. These days, the market is presented to us as capable of resolving all problems –even of protecting human rights; but the latter, basically through the façade of corporate social responsibility (see Human Rights Readers 190 and 191). 2. The market, it is said, must have access to everything. So people’s rights must all be [...]
I know the exciting stuff these days is healthcare reform, but I happen to be in Uganda for a month, taking care of the female ward at Kisoro hospital. I was recently called away from rounds for an urgent admission. I arrived to find a thin woman in her 50s, dressed in swaths of [...]
Are you curious about just exactly what “social medicine” means? This course was designed to answer that question. The Social Medicine Elective was organized by Drs. Timothy Holtz and Alyssa Finlay and – as can be seen by the titles – covers an array of topics. You can download the course lectures as PowerPoint™ presentations. [...]
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