Thursday, May 08, 2008

random points

  • diabetes = emerging silent killer
  • human kidney harvesting in Asia =
    one of the manifestations of the global division
    of labor where people from the Global South
    serve as suppliers of body parts to the
    recipients in the Global North
  • vegetarianism = answer to the global food shortage
    (according to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)
  • poverty-related diseases = TB, pneumonia, diarrhea
    (communicable but preventable if people are
    living in sanitary and decent conditions,
    according to Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo)

DS 141 topics

1. conventional medicine and Cuban social medicine 2. primary health care, secondary health care and tertiary health care 3. germ theory and...