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Week 3 - Discussion_Medical Anthropology

Week 3 - Discussion_Medical Anthropology

Q After reading the article by Singer and Baer on climate change and critical medical anthropology, reflect on how climate change is related to human health and to health disparities. Which segments of society contribute most to climate change? Which groups suffer (or will suffer) most as a result of climate change? What do you think about the authors’ recommendations at the end of the chapter regarding a shift to a more democratic, climate-safe, eco-socialist society?

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Every innovation and lifestyle change that humans brought for themselves, led to disturbances in the environment and more machines and technology was going to inevitably put pressure on the climate and bring resultant changes. This climate change is bound to impact health and introduce adversities to it, because every change in the climate, seasonal patterns, temperature levels, and the destruction of the vital protection layers on the earth like ozone layer and global warming, are potential enough to affect life patterns, bring new virus and bacteria, make older strains stronger, and introduce new types of diseases that could take time to find cure.