Chp 13 - Horrendous Death

Anthropology 353 with Olson at Arizona State University - Tempe

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hreats of Horrendous Death

calling attention to the threats posed by threating encoutners with death - accidents, violence, war, terrorism, and engaging in epidemic diesases

Daniel Defoe

1721 Novelist who wrote A journal from the Plague Year as a cautionary tale of the Black Plauge that occurred almost 2 generations earlier.

Risk Taking

all life involves risk, but degree of risk we assume is often subject to our own choices about how we life our lives and professions we take

Karoshi

A Japanese legally reconized cause of sudden death from overwork. Charatederized as a buildup of fatique caused by long ours of work that clearly exceed all normal phycholoical limiations.

Recreational Activites

mountain climbing, parachuting, scuba diving, motorcycle racing and a like. Labeled as "thill seeking"

Accidents

an event that occurs by change or from known causes can be groaded to include the reconingion of accidents due to carlessness, unawareness, or ignorance. Most people have varing degrees of control over.

Accident-prone

some can be ascribed this title but there is no scientifc way to find out why some people appear to be more prone than others for accidents to occur to.

"accidents waiting to happen"

unsafe conditions that are present in an environment due to negligence or ignorance.

Violence

14,000 murders occurred in the U.S. 1/2 of victims are under 30 yrs old. 30% are related to arguments over money, property, romantic situations. 15% was committed during the commission of a felony. 2/3 of all murders where gunshot related.

Guns - more than weapons

"when you are carrying a gun, i think other people can tell. some kinda of way a gun makes you light up. If you don't have a gun on you, a dude might mug you down. People don't mug you if you've got a gun on. They can detect something about you...

Gang Warfare

pg. 458 examples

Silent victims

Children how have witnessed violence because they appear to be physically unharmed but are nevertheless emotionally affected as they hear gunshots and witness shootings.

interpersonal violence

community based approach to violence prevention in Richmond ca - Larry Cohen & Susan swift: although most concentrated among youth in densely populated, low income, it affects everyone in the united states. pg. 460

Factors Favoring Violence

pg. 461

phychic maneuvers

factors that facilitate murder and other homicidal acts pg. 461

Guidelines for lessening potential for violence

pg. 462

avoid use of loaded verbiage, avoid dehumanizing conditions, promote communication, refrain from using punishment, champion the good guys, foster resources for alternatives, reduce attractiveness of violence in media.

war

killing is not only accepted, it is heroic, pg. 463

Arnold toynbee - the fundamental postulate on war is that, in war, killing is not murder.

Civilian Causalities

Red Cross - 9/10 dealths in war are civilians, U.N. - during 1990s 2 million children where killed another 6 million wher seriously injured or permanently disabled dur to military conflicts.

Militarism, effects of

is singled out to have a variety of deleterious health effects including proverty, environmental damage, social unrest, political; instability, national debit, and military oppression.

Technological Alienation

pg. 464

technological advances do not bring us close to our enemy, we do not see their face, they are objectified. The most characteristics feature of the modern war machine.

Early Warfare

limits, bow & arrow, ect

Conventional limits

avent of atomic bomb there is unlimited damage we could do to one another.

pg. 464-465

psychic njumbing

exposure to mass death the self-protective psychological response is to become insensitive and unfeeling. robert liftion and eric olson.

The Conversion of the Warrior

war activates a special set of conventions to make it psychologically possible for individuals to go against the grain of what they have learned about right and wrong - put aside ordinary rules of moral conduct. Toynbee

A much more total 'schizophrenia'

soldier in combat - veteran's example. pg 467

Genocide

pg 468 - defined as the effort to destory an entire nation or human group, occurred by horrendous results during the 20th cent. exp nazi germany

coping with the aftermath of war

combatants do not necessarily resolve their losses merely by leaving the warzone, or being discharged from military service. pg. 468-470

Making war, making peace

war is defined as a condition of hostile conflict between opposing forces, each of which believes its vital interests are at stake and seeks to impose control on the opposing side through the use of force. us and them. pg 470-472

terrorism

is like other homicidal acts that occur between strangers, yet many terrorism attacks have more in common with warfare, which aims toward specific targets and goals. pg 472

u.s. state department definition of terrorism

premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against non-combat targets by sub-national groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audenice.

Aum Shinrikyo

doomsday cult that released nerve gas into a tokyo subway in 1995

Geneva Convention

international agreement. which describes such matters as prisoner of war and of the sick, wounded, and those who are dead in battle.

Encyclopedia of Terrorism

cyndy combs & martian slann highlight key features of present-day terrorism. pg 474

September 11, 2011

terrorists hijacked jetliner and piloted it into the north tower of the world trade center in NYC. then a 2nd plane was crashed into the south tower. the 3rd jetliner was flown into the pentagon and the 4th crashed outside of skanksville penn. 474

Factors increasing imact of terrorism

pg 478 graph

The mind of a Terrorist

much terrorism current is religously affilitated.

AIDS & other emerging disease

another kind of threat is represented by emerging infections diseass like aids.

AIDS

acquired immune deficiency syndrome, synonymous with death , dread disease, contagious and epidemic, a modern plague. first case reported in 1981. pg 482-486

The threat of emerging diseases

early intervention, a shift to community and public health perspective and 3 the need to address health problems on a global scale.

Influenza

1918 - pandemic cuaesd that killed as many as 40 million people.

Penicillin

been cricial in treatment of several diseases and infections.

Horrendous death

categories of death that affect a large number of people.

pushed into poorer neighborhoods after penicillin was introduced since they could not afford the drug, also has to do with living conditions

Malaria

subjected to global eradication effort during the 1970s has stated a comeback with as many as 500 million people in 90 countries being affected every year.

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