Hotep's Story: Exploring the Wounds of Health Vulnerability in the US |
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Authors: | Fox Ken |
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Affiliation: | (1) Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Center, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, 91 East Concord, Maternity Building, 4th floor, Boston, MA 02118, USA |
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Abstract: | A wide variety of forms of domination hasresulted in a highly heterogeneous health riskcategory, ``the vulnerable.' The study of healthinequities sheds light on forces thatgenerate, sustain, and alter vulnerabilities toillness, injury, suffering and death. Thispaper analyzes the case of a high-risk teenfrom a Boston ghetto that illuminatesintersections between ``race' and class in theconstruction of vulnerability in the US.Exploration of his ``wounds' helps specify howlarge-scale social and cultural forces becomeembodied as individual experience of disparatehealth risk. The case demonstrates that healthinequities would not occur if resources –employment, income, wealth, education, housing,profiling in the legal system, and health care– were more justly managed in keeping withstandards outlined in the Universal Declarationof Human Rights. Professional responses to the``wounds of vulnerability' may reveal importantaspects of who we are and what our work asscholars, practitioners, and advocates mustbecome. |
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Keywords: | health disparities health and human rights health inequalities poverty and child health race/ethnicity social class and health vulnerability |
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