- Between weeks 8 and 12, each student should provide a weekly reflection (500 words) on the data you have collected to date.
- What data did you collect?
- What is your initial impression of the data?
- How have the data you have collected this week changed/progressed your thinking about your research project?
- What challenges did you encounter while collecting the data?
- What are your next steps?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3068720/
- Different kinds of healing approaches. CAM (complementary and alternative based medicine) – many different kinds of healing modalities – why aren’t these connected to public health? More specifically, why are they separated and privatized when they could be combined? Why are neoliberalists more inclined towards allopathic medicine over all others?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC442114/
- Toward the philosophy of CAM. Reductionist theory connects with western medicine – How has neoliberalism impacted allopathic healing, or how did it create it? Reductionist theory cannot understand everything because it is only looking at the ‘lower laws/levels of nature’ – “What is hoped for from CAM is to understand and heal disease, not as an abnormality of objective measures but as the suffering of a patient as an individual in totality.” – ‘Nature’s heirarchy’, “But it may be an illusion if we think we can understand phenomena on the higher level of Nature’s hierarchy by reducing them to the lower level” – “It is now well recognized that not all phenomena taking place at the higher, or more complex, level of Nature can be explained by the principles governing the lower, or less complex, levels, as any time when a higher level emerges in Nature, new rules governing that level will emerge. ” – “disease is a problem at the level of the individual, not usually reducible to the lower levels of its constituents: organs, cells and molecules.” – ‘the body looked at on the lower levels of nature’, this is a small portion of what is truly interacting with the individual – the individual is connected to the levels of nature we don’t understand yet – Holistic healing approach looks at the whole – Many holistic views see the body-mind-spirit connection as extremely important, as all three in the connection are equally important and influential to the well-being of each other individually.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09581596.2016.1144872
- “To advance our understanding of how, specifically, public health is imbricated in the various manifestations of neoliberalism…”
- ‘Material, practical, and technical’ the lower levels – neoliberal
- the commodification of the body and the way that public health has become – all of the charges (video we watched in class) that come with a visit to the hospital – privatization of things
- “Taking the commodification of workplace health promotion technologies as their case, they unpack how policies emphasizing employee health become legitimated within networks that include knowledge institutes and private companies, but not the workers themselves” – Neoliberalist ‘trickle down affect’ (dave harvey. Pg 63) should, in theory, be better for not only employees but for patients as well – “ In sum, we are not calling for the abandonment of the concept – paraphrasing Clifford (1988) on yet another troubled notion (‘culture’), neoliberalism seems to be a deeply compromised idea we cannot yet do without. Thus, being more careful and mindful of how we use it seems a good place to start.” – How could a holistic approach in public health care make life better for the patients?
COMMENTS:
Thanks for this , Brandon. A few comments: you need a more specific focus than what you have here. WHat are the questions that you want to answer in your final project exactly? You mentioned the relationship between the body and neoliberalism before, which is fine but you should show how your sources are related to your main topic. So, you should do more than providing some quotes from your sources.
Also, the annotated bibliography should be an addition to your reflection on the data you collect throughout the week (so “weekly research log” plus “annotated bibliography”). Next week, make sure you do both.
One more suggestion: you can also look at why insurance companies tend to support more biomedical models of care than other forms of care (more holistic ones).
Let me know if you want to talk to me about my comments.