Livejournal Thesis Courage - like Liquid Courage but cheaper

Oct 31, 2010 17:33

Having a haaaaaaard time getting going on the thesis today, but with extra complacency because yesterday I was actually pretty effective! Pretty effective meaning that I wrote stuff, and it was stuff that I needed to write. Stuff like starting to unpack the stories of my informants. Stuff like ( Read more... )

grad school, writing, go go ma thesis

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ailiathena November 2 2010, 02:35:39 UTC
It's the flip side of sanitary citizenship as laid out by Charles Briggs. To make it cartoony, sanitary citizens are the public in public health, and unsanitary subjects are the ones who need to be controlled and isolated to keep them from being dangerous to the "rest" of the population (that is, the sanitary citizens).

Here's the relevant quote that I'm pretty much building everything on:

"Being rational and modern, the former were deemed to possess the knowledge of science and hygiene and the educational foundation needed to assimilate information regarding the prevention and treatment of cholera. Such widely used models of health education assume a linear relationship between knowledge, attitude, behavior, and practices; thus sanitary citizens would acquire the proffered knowledge, display the appropriate attitudes, adopt the desired behaviors, and incorporate them into their routine practices, thereby confirming their rationality and normalcy. ... Unsanitary subjects purportedly departed from this model at all times, failing to acquire the proper knowledge, being resistant or uncooperative, not adopting the appropriate behaviors, and failing to change their routine practices. The breakdown of health education programs confirmed their lack of rationality, modernity, and civility, the factors required for full citizenship, sanitary or otherwise.” (Briggs and Mantini-Briggs 2003: 35)

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