ANTH1020: Aids in Global Perspective
I realize the more and more I go to this class, the more and more the Professor reminds me of Mrs. Depew. She is a cross between Mrs Depew and the SNL character who gets really excited about surprise parties. We looked at HIV statistics today in class from 2007 put out by UNAIDS. A lot of the lecture was a review of the assigned reading(which I totally did, yay me).
ANTH1322: Human Rights, Social Justice, Humanitarian Intervention: The Anthropology of Global Aid
This class is still way too crowded for my liking :( I doubt people will drop it though because this class is exactly what most Brown students are interested in. Today we talked about cultural relativism in the context of universal human rights. I think that a lot of the rights listed in the UDHR has a large bias towards western philosophies (like the right to privacy) but I think that there are some that are relevant (no one should be subjected to torture, cruel, inhumane, or degrading punishment) that should factor in cultural norms (because torture,cruel, inhuman and degrading could be considered relative).
BIOL0190H: Plants, Food and People
Ohhhhh Heywood ^_^ >
Went to an AWESOME lecture today from Arthur Kleinman. Incredibly thought provoking in the way that we as a society view, teach and practice medicine. I found his Q&A session more enjoyable than his lecture, though equally compelling. I agree with his view on the larger role caregiving should have in American medicine. I thought his call for us to be either heroes or antiheroes. We can either change the world on a large scale (hero) or we can go the traditional route in a nontraditional way, to go against the grain. Overall a great talk.
I have been trying to keep up with my reading but I am already falling behind, especially for readings on the reserves.
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