What is the global culture of capitalism? What are “global commodity chains”? What are “negative externalities”? What is “Karl Polanyi’s Paradox”? What are examples of each within the global culture of capitalism? What are the basic questions to ask about patterns of disease at any point in time and space? Describe the relationships between (1) culture and disease; (2) cities and disease; (3) environmental change and disease; and (4) human ecology and disease. What defines a “signature disease” of a specific historical time and pattern of geographic connections? How is Covid-19 an example of a signature disease? What are arguments–including the relevance of “Karl Polanyi’s Paradox”, “global commodity chains,” and “negative externalities”– for healthcare as a global public good (and as a human right), as opposed to healthcare as an individual, commodified choice?
