Fieldnote May 2 2023 - 1:18pm
In this visit, we were focused on stringing seashells onto the wooden branches as art pieces for the exhibition.
In this visit, we were focused on stringing seashells onto the wooden branches as art pieces for the exhibition.
In this visit, I spent most of my time talking to an ah ma from my weekly group.
We started our time at Naluwan with some morning dance moves to warm up our bodies. It was pleasant to see the elders actively participating in the exercise.
For this visit, Juanjuan and I were grouped with five grandmothers, three from the previous visit and two new grandmothers due to the absence of our classmates.
Driving through the small alley of the place where the Amis live felt odd as the modern view on my left - wind turbines, bridges, was a vast contrast from the view on my right which saw village-lik
The author is Byron Good, Ph.D. He is an American anthropologist and teaches medical anthropology at Harvard Medical School. His main focus is mental illness and the cultural meanings of it. He also explores patient narratives and the perspectives of non-Western medical knowledge and compareds different mental health systems. He has done research in Iran, Indonesia, and the US. He has several publications including papers, books, and editted volumes.
Brian Concannon, executive director of the Insitute of Justice and Democracy in Haiti, a nonprofit in Boston. Fights for human rights on the island of Haiti.
Carrie Kahn, NPR. National Public Radio, news source.
President Michel Martelly, Haitain president.
United Nations
Nepalese soldiers - brought with them cholera to Haiti. Sent from UN.
Ban Ki-moon - U.N. Secretary-General - led plan to eradicate cholera.
Haitain Ministries of Health and Environment - not trusted by the world to control a trust fund
Jake Johnson - Center for Economic Policy and Research - Washington
US Government Accountability Office - pricing the cost of building new housing too high
Mission of Hope - NGO helping build houses
US Congressmen - demaing UN Secretary-General take responsibility for outbreak
US District Court Judge J. Paul Oetken - rejected class-action lawsuit that saught to compel the UN to compensate victims and fund cholera eradication
Beatrice Lindstrom - lawter at the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti
The bibliography shows that the author did extensive research and even cited herself a few times. She uses MSF reports and essays, information from the United Nations, WHO, and other experts.
Emergency responders are portrayed in the film as being understaffed and overwhelmed by the outbreak. They show hospitals having to turn patients away due to being overwhelmed. They also show how Liberians were frustrated with this lack of communication between doctors and the patients. Nurses started dying from the disease, forcing hospitals to close. Responders had to deal with the community's denial of the disease, the lack of education, the rapid spread, and the number of patients.
A statue is built in the middle of the walkway that separates the river and the land that the Amis lives on.