A Summary Of Anita In Sending Sickness

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By analyzing the disparities in healthcare and how different diseases are managed within divergent regions, we are able to infer the impact of neoliberalism upon less well-off locales. The global responsibility, or lack thereof, is also largely present in the situations illustrated above, from the choice of racial isolation to the structural violence imposed on migrant workers. Furthermore, these ‘sinful’ social structures encourage inequality and generate diseases (Farmer, 2004: 307), as in the examples of Anita in Sending Sickness: Sorcery, Politics, and Changing Concepts of AIDS in Rural Haiti. The victims of the diseases portrayed are in majority incapable of attaining better health conditions due to the market economy, where victors remain