Engaging Northern Indigenous Children through Drawing for Community Health Research: A Picture of the Social Impact of H. pylori Infection in Fort McPherson in the Northwest Territories, Canada

This article examines different forms of Ukrainian migrant women’s social remittances, articulating some results of two ethnographic studies: one focused on the migration of Ukrainian women to Italy, and the other on the social impact of emigration in Ukraine. First, the paper illustrates the patterns of monetary remittance management, which will be defined as a specific form of social remittance, since they are practices shaped by systems of norms challenged by migration. In the second part, the article moves on to discuss other types of social remittances transferred by migrant women to their families left behind: the right of self-care and self-realisation; the recognition of alternative and more women-friendly life-course patterns; consumption styles and ideas on economic education. Therefore, I will explore the contents of social remittances, but also the gender and intergenerational conflicts that characterise these flows of cultural resources.

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Fictions of the Human Right to Health: Writing Against the Postcolonial Exotic in Western Medicine

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400046.003.0030 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Rosemary J. Jolly

Keyword(s):

Health Research ◽

Western Medicine ◽

Scientific Method ◽

Medical Humanities ◽

Right To Health ◽

The Body ◽

Health And Wellness ◽

Human Right ◽

Cultural Specificity ◽

The Social

The last decade has witnessed far greater attention to the social determinants of health in health research, but literary studies have yet to address, in a sustained way, how narratives addressing issues of health across postcolonial cultural divides depict the meeting – or non-meeting – of radically differing conceptualisations of wellness and disease. This chapter explores representations of illness in which Western narrators and notions of the body are juxtaposed with conceptualisations of health and wellness entirely foreign to them, embedded as the former are in assumptions about Cartesian duality and the superiority of scientific method – itself often conceived of as floating (mysteriously) free from its own processes of enculturation and their attendant limits. In this respect my work joins Volker Scheid’s, in this volume, in using the capacity of critical medical humanities to reassert the cultural specificity of what we have come to know as contemporary biomedicine, often assumed to be

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Current issues in aesthetics and beyond: Revisiting lookism

Ethics & Bioethics ◽

10.2478/ebce-2020-0005 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (1-2) ◽

pp. 59-68

Author(s):

Peter Takáč

Keyword(s):

Plastic Surgery ◽

Social Impact ◽

Human Beings ◽

Common View ◽

Aesthetic Medicine ◽

Unequal Treatment ◽

Self Confidence ◽

Public Status ◽

The Social ◽

The Common

AbstractLookism is a term used to describe discrimination based on the physical appearance of a person. We suppose that the social impact of lookism is a philosophical issue, because, from this perspective, attractive people have an advantage over others. The first line of our argumentation involves the issue of lookism as a global ethical and aesthetical phenomenon. A person’s attractiveness has a significant impact on the social and public status of this individual. The common view in society is that it is good to be more attractive and healthier. This concept generates several ethical questions about human aesthetical identity, health, authenticity, and integrity in society. It seems that this unequal treatment causes discrimination, diminishes self-confidence, and lowers the chance of a job or social enforcement for many human beings. Currently, aesthetic improvements are being made through plastic surgery. There is no place on the human body that we cannot improve with plastic surgery or aesthetic medicine. We should not forget that it may result in the problem of elitism, in dividing people into primary and secondary categories. The second line of our argumentation involves a particular case of lookism: Melanie Gaydos. A woman that is considered to be a model with a unique look.

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