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842. PUBLIC HEALTH HAS LOST POLITICAL INFLUENCE, BECAUSE OF A MISMATCH BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE, MORAL AUTHORITY AND THE FORMS OF POWER THAT CURRENTLY SHAPE SOCIETY. (Jonathan Heller) 841. FOR ME, SPIRITUALITY IS CLOSER TO PHILOSOPHY THAN TO RELIGION. THIS, SINCE IT IS A QUESTION OF ETHICS, NOT OF DOGMA. (Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune) 840. THE CASE OF ‘CHOICE-LESS DEMOCRACIES’ (Saeed Husaini) 839. THE CHALLENGE OF THE DAY IS NOT ABOUT GETTING INVOLVED IN MORE MODELS FOR THE WORLD; THE NEED IS FOR A NEW MODEL ALTOGETHER. (Kofi Annan) 838. THE HYPOCRITICAL NATURE OF DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION. (cooperation…?)
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495. VIEWPOINT: ETHICS, IDEOLOGY AND HUMAN RIGHTS –A tour de force in 99 paragraphs. (part 4 of 4)

August 7, 2019 admin

Human rights: Food for shaping many a colleague’s thought ‘Viewpoint’ (4) Human Rights Reader 495 Economic power, political power and poverty The Economic and Political Discourse -To an economist, it…

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494. VIEWPOINT: ETHICS, IDEOLOGY AND HUMAN RIGHTS –A tour de force in 99 paragraphs. (part 3 of 4)

August 7, 2019 admin

Human rights: Food for shaping many a colleague’s thought ‘Viewpoint’ (3) Human Rights Reader 494 Slicing Reality 50. If we are to understand history, then, we must come to terms…

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493. VIEWPOINT: ETHICS, IDEOLOGY AND HUMAN RIGHTS –A tour de force in 99 paragraphs. (part 2 of 4)

August 7, 2019 admin

Human rights: Food for shaping many a colleague’s thought ‘Viewpoint’ (2) Human Rights Reader 493 Political naiveté? 29. Many moralists think that politics is ‘dirty’ or not a ‘virtuous’ activity.…

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492. VIEWPOINT: ETHICS, IDEOLOGY AND HUMAN RIGHTS –A tour de force in 99 paragraphs. (part 1 of 4)

August 7, 2019 admin

Human rights: Food for shaping many a colleague’s thought ‘Viewpoint’ Human Rights Reader 492 . What drives development workers in their daily work? 1. Do they choose human rights (HR)…

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491. THE VIOLATION OF THE RIGHT TO NUTRITION: MACRO AND MICRO DETERMINANTS. (part 2 of 2)

August 7, 2019 admin

Human rights: Food for adopting an undeniable thought ‘Macro causes are the constraint’ Human Rights Reader 491 The role of ideology 24. Nutrition seems to be as good an entry…

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490. THE VIOLATION OF THE RIGHT TO NUTRITION: MACRO AND MICRO DETERMINANTS. (part 1 of 2)

August 7, 2019 admin

Human rights: Food for adopting an undeniable thought ‘Macro causes are the constraint’ Human Rights Reader 490 Macro and micro causes of malnutrition 1. Here I attempt to look at…

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489. THE PREVAILING DEVELOPMENT PARADIGM ALLOWS TO MANIPULATE, DOMINATE, EXPLOIT, EXPROPRIATE. (Ivan Illich)

August 7, 2019 admin

Human rights: Food for faulty dominant thought ‘HR and the prevailing development paradigm’ Human Rights Reader 489 -When we talk about a development paradigm shift, we are talking about applying…

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488. OMITTING THE PEOPLE’S SUFFERING IN CONVENTIONAL HISTORY SEALED THEIR DESTINY AND SHATTERED THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS.

August 7, 2019 admin

Human Rights: Food for a buried thought ‘History has shattered HR’ Human Rights Reader 488 -I always fall back on one of those uncounted lives that history has buried without…

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487. FROM THE HUMAN RIGHT TO KNOW AND THE FURTHER DUTY TO INQUIRE FLOWS THE OBLIGATION TO ACT. (Sandra Steingraber)

August 7, 2019 admin

Human rights: Food for a stagnating thought ‘The obligation to act’ Human Rights Reader 487 -The check has come back from the bank of justice marked ‘insufficient funds’. (Martin Luther…

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486. THERE IS NO SUCH A THING AS A LACK OF POLITICAL WILL; IT IS A CLEARLY ABUSED CONCEPT. WHY? BECAUSE THERE ALWAYS IS A WILL: A WILL TO EXCLUDE CERTAIN POLITICAL CHOICES (e.g., NO WILL TO INCORPORATE HUMAN RIGHTS…).

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Human rights: Food for a bad politicians’ thought ‘Lack of political will??’ Human Rights Reader 486 -Our human rights (HR) advocacy always involves taking a political stand and this often…

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842. PUBLIC HEALTH HAS LOST POLITICAL INFLUENCE, BECAUSE OF A MISMATCH BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE, MORAL AUTHORITY AND THE FORMS OF POWER THAT CURRENTLY SHAPE SOCIETY. (Jonathan Heller)

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CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN MD
Saigon, Vietnam
Email: cschuftan@phmovement.org
Claudio Schuftan is a freelance public health consultant in Ho Chi Minh City and an ex-adjunct associate professor in the Department of International Health of the Tulane School of Public Health, USA. He is a Chilean national and got his M.D. degree in his native country.

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