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The Deserving And Undeserving: Examining Ontario's New Strategy For Organ And Tissue Donation, Colleen M. Connors
The Deserving And Undeserving: Examining Ontario's New Strategy For Organ And Tissue Donation, Colleen M. Connors
Social Justice and Community Engagement
The medical marvel of organ and tissue transplantation has spurred new questions about the divisible body and its potential for commodification, dividing the world into unequal populations —receivers and donors. Efforts to foster equilibrium in the supply and demand of transplantable organs have led many to argue for market-based solutions; however the role of privilege has often been made invisible in these discussions, exacerbating pre-existing global inequalities. This paper acknowledges Canadian patient engagement in systems of organ trafficking, and explores the current strategy enacted by Trillium Gift of Life Network (TGLN) to improve organ and tissue donation and transplantation (OTDT) …
Talking About Public Health: An Analysis Of A Municipal Public Health Twitter Feed, Olivia E. Kozela
Talking About Public Health: An Analysis Of A Municipal Public Health Twitter Feed, Olivia E. Kozela
Sociology Major Research Papers
Social media has become an increasingly popular tool used by experts and laypeople alike to obtain, share, and create health information. Public health authorities have also begun to use web 2.0 platforms to share information and foster engagement with the public. Existing public health research about Twitter has explored its uses as a tool of health promotion, however communication on the Twitter platform has not yet been explored from a critical public health perspective. The purpose of this study is to analyze how talk about public health occurs online via Twitter. Using both content and discourse analysis of communication on …
The Biomedical And Holistic Practices Of The Continuum Of Healthism, Donya Mosleh
The Biomedical And Holistic Practices Of The Continuum Of Healthism, Donya Mosleh
Sociology Major Research Papers
This MRP critically interrogates the concepts of biomedical healthim and holistic healthism. The existing literature posits that holistic healthism is conceived as the positive solution to the restraints of biomedical healthism. Grounded in an analysis of obesity, the main assertion of the MRP concerns the way in which both forms of healthism are not oppositional, but rather, create a continuum. As such, the MRP argues that both forms of healthism are differing processes which work to foster the same end goal of achieving optimum health. Consequently, the MRP will also argue that healthism is a metaphysical ideal/ethos in which biomedical …