Structure Violence 'By The Kidder Book'
In my understanding of term "structure violence" is what Farmer has described through the Kidder book to explain how people living in other parts of the world (Haiti) with different social structure or political and economic system that essentially harm people by preventing them from getting their basic needs such as medical care and disease prevention. Typically word of structure means in a sense of some systematic physical forms, but in the Kidders book, it means also social arrangements that is embedded in the typical social activities like relationship between human, dynamics and possibly some rules, and that's why structure violence is relatively subtle in terms of visibility, and it is difficult to find a responsible person or group, but it is rather our social structure itself could be the problem.
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Farmer sees the concept of structure violence through view of primarily on public health, it could impacts anywhere in our human life, but what's important is it could lead to a lots of unnecessary human death whether it is caused by hunger or a baby got killed with simple vaccine preventable disease due to a social system that is not able to support. While structure violence is hard to see, it is difficult to identify its problem, and therefore we need to look for this issue closely and see where it ties to in our social system. For example, we know poverty and income inequality is closely related to life expectancy due to the relationship between health care and economic condition. Furthermore, there are a lots of other factors that make a huge differences in quality of life such as power, privilege and possibly social class and more. This is simply not acceptable, and shouldn't be the factors that control someone's life. I think that's what Dr. Farmer was trying to say in the Kidder
Farmer sees the concept of structure violence through view of primarily on public health, it could impacts anywhere in our human life, but what's important is it could lead to a lots of unnecessary human death whether it is caused by hunger or a baby got killed with simple vaccine preventable disease due to a social system that is not able to support. While structure violence is hard to see, it is difficult to identify its problem, and therefore we need to look for this issue closely and see where it ties to in our social system. For example, we know poverty and income inequality is closely related to life expectancy due to the relationship between health care and economic condition. Furthermore, there are a lots of other factors that make a huge differences in quality of life such as power, privilege and possibly social class and more. This is simply not acceptable, and shouldn't be the factors that control someone's life. I think that's what Dr. Farmer was trying to say in the Kidder