Readings
This reading highlights the importance of social construction of numbers in critical numeracy
What is "Birds-- Dead and Deadly" by Joel Best (2007)?
This approach to medicine emphasizes that biological processes and social conditions are deeply intertwined in shaping health.
What is the biosocial approach?
This toxic heavy metal contaminated Peruvian communities through mining and storage practices.
What is lead?
DDT, vaccines, and antibiotics are all examples of this.
What is a magic bullet?
This term describes arrangements embedded in political and economic organization of our social world that put individuals and populations in harms way.
What is structural violence?
This reading offers a theorization of evidentiary ecologies as an aspect of war ecologies.
What is Rubaii (2020), "Birth Defects and the Toxic Legacy of War in Iraq"
This form of governmentality is said to exert control over life as opposed to death.
What is biopower?
This disease became the first—and so far only—human disease to be globally eradicated in 1980.
What is smallpox?
This survey method accounts for over 80% of WHO maternal mortality estimates in sub-Saharan Africa.
Environments transformed by intensive, long-term militarism are described as this.
What are war ecologies?
Wendland explains how this builds social causes into health data but also reduces and simplifies complex factors that shape health and well-being.
What is the maternal mortality ratio (MMR)?
Social and economic deprivation, toxic environments, trauma, degraded ecosystems, and pathogens are all examples of this principle.
What are pathways of embodiment?
This wartime activity has led to neurological disorders for which U.S. veterans struggle to receive recognition as attributable to military service.
What are burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan?
This demonstrated that electrolyte-enhanced water and mandated rest periods in shade stop onset of CKDnt.
What is the Adelante initiative?
This universal metric allows comparison among very different populations and health conditions across time.
What is disability-adjusted life years (DALYs)?
In her study of asthma, Kenner argues that most coverage of the costs of asthma fails to account for these aspects.
What are structural barriers to healthcare access and insufficient environmental regulations to curb exposure in the built environment?
"Visual fractal metaphor of an evolving bush of life intertwined at every scale, micro to macro, with the scaffolding of society that different core social groups daily reinforce or seek to alter"
What is ecosocial theory?
This disease served as a case study for understanding causality in epidemiology.
What is tuberculosis?
This approach recognize that "problems emanate from and impact particular places as much as they do global systems."
What is planetary health?
This term describes the "technoscientific transformations that have changed the practice, organization, and constitution of biomedicine since the 1980s."
What is biomedicalization?
From a history of technology lens, Knowles describes disasters this way.
What are envirotechnical events, which blur the boundaries between natural and technological systems?
This approach to disease emphasizes determinants, engages large-scale datasets, and aims to understand the causes of causes.
What is social epidemiology?
This example of slow violence experiences a legacy of cancers, birth defects, displacement, environmental and degradation from a long period of nuclear "tests."
What are the Marshall Islands?
Critical numeracy helps to understand and limit the potential harm of this phenomenon.
What is numerical mystique?
As a result of this, individuals and communities experience disaster causes, vulnerability, preparedness, results and response, and reconstruction differently.
What is social calculus?