Anthro Final Exam Key concepts

Research Articles Analysis

Barriers and Facilitators to Care for Sickle Cell Disease (SCD

• From the provider’s perspective in the emergency room and their perspective and barriers and facilitators to accessing care wanting to know why patients succumb to the disease and what the solution is

  • Might ask us a question about a facilitator or barrier

  • In the context of an essay, she’ll ask us to critique facilitators and barriers

1. Identified Barriers

   • Lack of pain management protocols in emergency departments

   • Insufficient training on SCD for emergency staff

2. Pain Medication Barriers

   • Delays and reluctance in prescribing adequate pain relief

   • Misconceptions about addiction and drug-seeking behavior of SCD patients

3. Co-occurring Symptoms and Illness

   • Chronic pain, anemia, infections, and acute chest syndrome

   • Importance of awareness of comorbid conditions for effective treatment

4. Bias in Emergency Treatment

   • Stigma and stereotypes regarding SCD patients

   • Discriminatory treatment practices leading to inadequate care

5. Facilitators to Care

   • Integrated multidisciplinary teams and improved communication

   • Challenges posed by time constraints and busy ER environments

6. Provider Knowledge and Actions Required

   • Understanding SCD’s complexities

   • Providing empathetic, unbiased treatment and effective pain management strategies

Lefevre - Making Embryos Lively

• She would like us to think about the language in the paper and the discourses they use in the context of different practices while working on the material

  • The specialists are working on biological materials and making them lively or not depending on the work they do with it, regarding the different ways they engage with the embryo as “children” or “trash” that needs to be discarded

• Focus on language and metaphor usage by healthcare practitioners

  • How terminology shifts based on context of care with embryos

  • Insider-outsider complexities between providers and patients

• Response to Author’s Claim

  • Importance of anthropological perspectives on embryological practices

  • Discussing moral implications and societal views on embryos

Surrogacy Context

Key Dilemmas in Gestational Surrogacy

• Essay Question: Commitment with gestational mother and surrogate parents to surrogacy and the ethical concerns regarding termination of the embryo

  • Doctors role in surrogacy and their commitments, gestational surrogacy occurs via contracts

• Complexities inherent in legal contracts between parties involved

• Impact of emotional and financial commitments on surrogate and intended parents

• Discussion on disrupted commitments within the narrative

Spatial Barriers as Moral Failings

• She asks us to look at the differences in responses regarding the moral dimension of living in a “healthcare desert”, not just about the number of miles but the deeper issues emotional and socially

• Health Care Deserts

  • Defined as regions with inadequate access to healthcare services

  • “Healthcare desert” contributes to loss of trust in other providers

  • There’s a sense of shame in asking for help, which makes individuals seem incapable

    • The American ideology for independence juxtaposes the need to ask for healthcare

• Health Issues Impacting Rural Women

  • Access to comprehensive reproductive health services, mental health, and chronic illness care

• Intersectionality of Rurality and Health Disparities

  • Rurality combined with factors such as socioeconomic status and race affects healthcare access

• Concept of Distance

  • Distance as a critical framework; not just physical, but also social and emotional separations

    • Travel as a part of ordinary life isn’t problematic for them, but it’s the distance created when they see it as being left behind “abandoned” from healthcare, the sense that they have to beg to have it provided

  • How rurality is recognized in varying contexts (economic, cultural, political perspectives)

  • Inequality in a rural context targets distance in spacial and miles to travel, forced mobility to receive care, and the moral understanding of distance

• Rural Women’s Views on Distance

  • Preferences for local healthcare providers and familiarity impacting care access

• Spatial Imaginaries Concept

  • Linking rural distance and travel experiences to women's health narratives

• Barriers & Challenges Identified

  • Travel issues, financial expenses, time loss, and lack of information about services

• Moral Framework and Discussions

  • Issues of fairness, justice, and the moral implications of unequal healthcare distribution

• Mistrust within Rural Health Experiences

  • Distrust towards medical professionals and institutions as significant as distance-related barriers

    • What’s lost is the capacity to trust when forced to go far distances due to providers being strangers though they may be close

Other Articles of Interest

• Missing Mayberry: Exploration of racial dynamics and health perceptions

• Experiences of Surrogacy: Free vs. compensated pregnancy complexities

• Masculinity Dilemmas: Discussion on sexuality and intimacy among different cultural groups

• Politics of Disability: Analysis of violence and disability politics in urban settings

• Embodiment and Gender Transitioning: Study of necropolitics among transwomen in a socio-political context

• Indigenous Reproductive Mobilities: Examining forced travel for childbirth within indigenous communities