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Debra
L. Martin, PhD University
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health and disease are, in almost every manifestation, related to ideology,
inequality, and power. Poor health is often shorthand for dominance, a proxy
for social status, or related to differential access to resources. By its
very nature, it is embedded with meaning at the level of biology (damage
to corporeal bodies and neurological processes) and culture (producing individual,
household, community, and inter-community reactions). It is a flashpoint
for pain and disability that can be physical, mental, and collective. Both
the causes and consequences of disease and early death need to be examined
from a number of perspectives to capture the variable and nuanced ways that
it intersects with other behaviors and cultural patterns. |
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