Sugar plantations, Chemical Plants, COVID-19
The chemical plants in Cancer Alley are built where there once were sugar plantations. Descendants of enslaved communities still live nearby.
The chemical plants in Cancer Alley are built where there once were sugar plantations. Descendants of enslaved communities still live nearby.
Join us for the Disaster STS Network’s Fall 2021 virtual tour of Louisiana's Cancer Alley, a corridor of chemical plants along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans with shockin
Bruze Nizeye and Sara Stulac both work with Partners in Health (founded by Paul Farmer) while Salmaan Keshavjee is a physician and researcher whose expertise is in multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and global health. Farmer's and Keshavjee's anthropological research in particular is important to emergency response because it would allow for improved preparation of treatment to those communities. Their work in seeing the social causes of health epidemics would also allow for better prevention of disasters.
1. Multi-drug resistant HIV and impact to treatments and research
2. Rudolph Virchow and his work in public health
3. "In the two rural districts of Rwanda in which the PIH model was introduced in May 2005, an estimated 60 percent of inhabitants are refugees, returning exiles, or recent settlers; not a single physician was present to serve 350,000 people." -looked up how this came to be; was there any healthcare available to them at all?
The report is cited in news articles and other studies about the ebola outbreak; some of the studies I found on Google Scholar were:
http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?pid=S0256-95742015001200008&script=…
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4508539/
https://globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1299…
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1736922875?pq-origsite=gscholar
The author is Didier Fassin, a French sociologist and anthropologist who was trained as a physician in internal medicine. He developed the field of critical moral anthropology and currently does research on punishment, asylum, and inequality. This research looks at the social and political forces that affect public health trends, so is not directly involved in emergency response.
All levels of government and Indian tribal government in the United States.
The policy applies to U.S. state and local first responders to incidents.