CMcGuire: Moral Economy
Connie McGuireThe sign pictured talks about 3 heroes. A moral economy of COVID-19: Essential workers are called heroes in order to justify the risks they must take with their lives.
The sign pictured talks about 3 heroes. A moral economy of COVID-19: Essential workers are called heroes in order to justify the risks they must take with their lives.
University of Washington: http://www.washington.edu/omad/ctcenter/projects-common-book/mountains-beyond-mountains/explaining-difference/
The Society Pages: https://thesocietypages.org/sexuality/2010/01/18/thinking-about-haiti-structural-violence-through-the-lens-of-m-l-k/
Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age by Jonathan Kahn
This article used data from Baltimore about AIDS care, and the authors' research in Rwanda, discussing results from the Partners in Health structural interventions and comparing them to produce their claims.
I was not able to find any resources that discussed or referenced this article other than this class.
The article cites other reports, experts in various fields, and notes historical events (previous epidemics, disease outbreaks, bioterrorism) to support its arguments for biosecurity.
1) “From the first moments to the last, however, their efforts were plagued by failures of communication, command and control.”
2) ''It's a disgrace,'' he said. ''The police are talking to each other. It's a no-brainer: Get us what they're using. We send people to the moon, and you mean to tell me a firefighter can't talk to a guy two floors above him?''
3) “Throughout the crisis, the two largest emergency departments, Police and Fire, barely spoke to coordinate strategy or to share intelligence about building conditions.”
The program was funded by NY Governor Andrew Cuomo, who gave $15 million to create the college.
The research is mainly through interviews with inmates, but they also cite legal cases and government/organizations actions and statements.
The study analyzes the high incarceration rates in the U.S. as an epidemic connected to the lack of public health resources available to populations being arrested.
The program is a branch of Tulane University’s School of Social Work.