There are many things that can be said about the nightmarish practices of our culture concerning illness and dying but the most nightmarish aspect of our cultures practices around illness and dying would have to be how health insurers treat patients like a game. A game where the patient almost always looses, and is arguably the most horrific aspect of our culture's practices around illness and dying. Dominant social practices around illness and dying can be connected to dominant social practices around food in our culture because as Americans, we tend to eat unhealthy and live unhealthy but arguably because of huge corporations that brainwash us in to thinking what we are doing is right when it is actually wrong. Cheap food=large expenses in surgeries and medicines to help us live (diabetes etc..) which leads me to think, if we spend so little to get sick then why must it cost so much to get better? Has living become a luxury?
Harry,
ReplyDeleteWe'll never know enough about things in life, but the similarities in it, help us understand the connections that exist. Your connection with Food and Illness and Dying made me think about what relations there are and your final question to if we spend so little to get sick, why must it cost so much to get better only made think of the "why's" and "how's" in life and what we do as people to understand.
Good Post!
Christian