Over at TedTalks, there’s a talk about combining geography with medicine. It’s an interesting discussion. Typically, we assume that our health is determined by a genetic makeup and our diet. We don’t even look at where we live. That is of no concern to medical records. Bill Davenhall suggests otherwise. Where we live has an important feature for doing medicine. Thus, we must look at geography if we’re going to do medicine correctly. Check it out:
In a related manner, Philosophy Bites recently had a discussion about global justice and health by using John Rawls’ theory of justice. You can go to the actual link here or you can listen to it here by right-clicking and “Save as. . “