EiJ Concept: Equity
A critical exploration of the concept of equity.
A critical exploration of the concept of equity.
Enviornmental injustice researcher's program pages.
Digital collection of resources for understanding and using critical concepts to characterize and respond to environmental injustice.
Collections of readings that examine and conceptualize environmental injustice.
This PECE essay details the quotidian anthropocene in Ecuador utilizing the Questioning Quotidian Anthropocenes analytic developed for the Open Seminar River School.
1. "But with every explosion that shook the Japanese plant it became clearer: there was nobody -- not in Japan, nor Russia, nor the United States -- who had the relevant know-how, equipment, or strategy to handle a nuclear disaster. No international nuclear emergency response group exists today." pg 194
2. "But in the interest of sustainable, socially legitimate solutions, arguably deisions about even the technical responses to disasters should not be left to scientists and engineers alone." pg 196
3. "While national and international disaster relief organizations have refined their response techniques over the past decades, nuclear emergency preparedness and response has hardly gained traction." pg 200
Per Bech - Danish Psychiatrist who provided the author with a story about a patient of his. He is an innovator in clinical psychometrics.
Journal of the American Medical Association - in 1992 published an article about giving weight to the combination of doctor's experience and biological plausibility.
Hellmuth Kaiser - a teacher to the author and taught him about fictional cases portrayed on stage.
Oxford University Press - began publishing a journal devoted to case reports of patients.
New England Jounrl of Medicine - opened an issue with a case history to highlight patient experience.
Lone Lindberg - coauthor for Dr. Bech, point out that spontaneous recovery from depression late in life is rare
Leston Havens - psychoanalyst - uses an interesting approach with his patients
"The outside world's response to Haiti's continuing cholera epidemic offers a revealing window on this disheartening dynamic"
"The source [of cholera] is clear to public health experts: Cholera was brought to Haiti by Nepalese soldiers quartered in a United Nations peacekeeping camp that spilled its waste into a tributary of the Artibonite."
"The UN has, thus far, refused to acknowledge responsibility for the cholera catastrophe"
The author uses MSF essays and statistics. She also uses information from the WHO and other analysis frome xperts in the field to help frame her argument.
The main focus of this film is highlighting the need for proper public health infrastructure as a way to contain the spread of disease.