War & Bodies
Hello! It has been some time since my last post and that has been because I have been working on this post for literal months. This draft has been open on my computer and these words bouncing around my brain since the first day of our Medical Anthropology & Public Health module in February. In that time, I have been on three different continents and figured it was time to finally bite the bullet and try to put into words some of the thoughts that have been plaguing my mind. Over the past few weeks, through lectures and seminars and readings and conversations with friends, the parallels between health and militarization have become more stark in my mind. There are a few ways, through language and action, that this relationship is hard to ignore. I am going to touch on three of them very briefly-- 1. Our Bodies Are A Fortress Think back to those high school biology days and learning about how our immune systems work. Textbooks were rife with military analogies, describing th
