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Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 5/2020

01-05-2020 | Healing Arts

A History of Structural Violence

Author: Abhisake Kole, MD, PhD

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 5/2020

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I practice medicine in rural India. I regularly see people die of fully treatable or preventable disease because of the accident of their birthplace. A man died from a myocardial infarction because the nearest angiography with revascularization was three hours away. A young woman presented with advanced cervical cancer due to a lack of screening and vaccination. A newborn suffered hypoxic brain injury because the birth center nearby had no oxygen. …
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Title
A History of Structural Violence
Author
Abhisake Kole, MD, PhD
Publication date
01-05-2020
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 5/2020
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-05722-4

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