SfAA Panel: Beyond Environmental Injustice
Essay for the double-panel "Beyond Environmental Injustice", 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 22-27, 2021.
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Andreas_RebmannSonja D Schmid. She is an assistant professer in Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Tech. She studies the history of nuclear energy and the decisions governments make around nuclear power. Due to her background of studies, she appears to be a trustable source.
She has discussed responses to nuclear disasters, however she has no on the field background that I could find. She is on a CERT team but thats not in the field.
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Zackery.White"Does our clinical practice acknowledge what we already know—namely, that social and environmental forces will limit the effectiveness of our treatments?"
"This means working at multiple levels, from “distal” interventions—performed late in the process, when patients are already sick—to “proximal” interventions—trying to prevent illness through efforts such as vaccination or improved water and housing quality."
"Yet risk has never been determined solely by individual behavior: susceptibility to infection and poor outcomes is aggravated by social factors such as poverty, gender inequality, and racism."
Law does more than codify, regulate, and control; it also catalyzes and transmutes, provoking cascading social and cultural effects, particularly when the force of law is informational.