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Objective of this Project This project seeks to examine and explore how the way we define geographical and occupational positions comes from an inherently racist set of principles This project seeks to deconstruct the false perception a homogenous Latin American culture This project exists to examine healthcare systems in the Americas and our attitudes towardContinue reading “About this project”

What do you think a doctor looks like? Here is what google thinks: You’ll notice something about these images. Every single person wears a white coat, a stethoscope, most wear a smile. The majority are men, white men. And in the US, this is pretty similar to the statics we have: 69.8% of doctors areContinue reading “Doctors, Race, and INGOs”

It is hard to define Latin America because it is an inherently damaging definition. It defines a large region full of many countries and 2 continents as a product of their colonizers. Latin America refers to the formerly Spanish and Portuguese areas of the Americas. Often the term as used interchangeably with South America, butContinue reading “What is Latin America and how has that changed”

There are a lot of common global markers of health that are used to define what countries are healthy and what health is. Today, I will split them up into two basic categories: determinant markers and outcome markers (a full list of WHO health indicators can be found here). Heath outcome markers deal with anythingContinue reading “Evaluating Common Health Indicators”

Biomedicine is what we think of as “modern” medicine or “western” medicine. It is sanitation, vaccination, antibiotics, the type of medicine based on disease and microbiology. To call biomedine “modern” and “western” is a lie, as disease prevention is an ancient as aqueducts, and understanding of illness extends much beyond the western world (Bastien-x, Porter-2).Continue reading “Biomedicine vs. Ethnomedicine”

In 1823, James Monroe told European nations that they had no right to interfere in the Western Hemisphere. The US wanted the European colonizers and shadow governments out. And conceptually that sounds like a good thing, except the problem was the US government wanted to replace those shadow governments with their own. Throughout the 19thContinue reading “What is the Monroe Doctrine”

Latin America has a history of successful implementation of socialized health. The movement for socialized health came up in the 1950s and 60s. The Latin American Social Medicine is organized around the Latin American Association of Social Medicine (founded 1984). To learn more about the history of this movement, check out this article. Latin AmericasContinue reading “Shifting Landscapes of Health: A future of socialized medicine”

I read a lot of books and articles for this project, so many in fact that all of them were not able to make it into my final work. For this page I am focusing on books that I truly believe would be a good place to start for understanding the history and continuation ofContinue reading “Further Reading”