image by Karthikeyan K. CC0 Public Domain via Unsplash.
Images of a Loa Loa worm crawling across a woman’s eye, a man’s leg swollen, unrecognizable from filariasis, a child comatose from malaria: these are the images often used to start a lecture on global health. The people suffering from these exotic maladies are undoubtedly of people of color who hail from communities and countries impoverished by a succession of geopolitical forces in direct opposition to human rights. The ravages of slavery, colonialism, and the strictly imposed economic ideology called neoliberalism, resulted in and perpetuate the concept of a first, second, and third world. A concept under which we normalize and accept massive and profound inequities and ignore the history and politics behind them.
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Hazel’s comment
I usually use OUP blog posts in my “10 for Today” posts but this seemed to me to be too important. The subject needs a post in its own right.
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