The work of Dr. Martin Donohue is no stranger to the portal. (See our previous postings on GE, NY-Presbyterian Hospital & the Hudson River Clean-up and Alternative Valentine’s Day: No gold, No diamonds, No flowers?) He wrote to us recently that he has updated most of the presentations on his website Public Health & Social Justice. He noted that: “as always, the powerpoints are open-access, and I am always looking for submissions from health professionals at all stages.”
Here are some of our favorite selections from the dozens of slideshows, articles, and syllabi available on the site:
- The syllabus from Dr. Donohue’s Public Health and Social Justice Course. How can one fail to be intrigued by a public health course that starts with a reading of Michael Parenti’s How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World? A listing of slideshows and papers from this course can be found at this link.
- A slideshow on the the links between Luxury Care & Academic Medicine. This includes a discussion of strategies adopted by cash-strapped academic medical centers such as paying to provide care to sport teams in return for publicity, recruiting high-income foreign clients, and creating boutique clinics (such as travel clinics for travel to exotic locations).
- An article, by contrast, from the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved on the health problems of migrant and seasonal work.
- A slideshow on Scans and Scams discussing “direct-to-consumer marketing of unnecessary (and potentially harmful) screening tests; also covers CT scan controversies and health care fraud.”
- An entire page of articles devoted to the “adverse health, environmental, and human rights consequences of flowers, gold, and diamonds.” It is important to note that Dr. Donohue offers alternative ways of offering tokens of love.
- An article on The history of hysteria from which we learn: “Egyptian papyri from 1900 B.C. (the Kahun Papyrus) recount curious behavioral disturbances in women (chronic fatigue, difficulty seeing, diffuse myalgias) thought to be caused by a wandering uterus. Symptoms were thought to result from the crowding of other organs when the uterus ascended into the abdomen. The belief that the uterus behaved as an autonomous, maverick organism within a woman led to treatments based upon that, such as fumigating the vulva with precious and sweet-smelling substances to entice the uterus back into the pelvis, while repelling it from the upper abdomen by ingesting foul-tasting foods or inhaling putrid smelling substances.“
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