Browsing by Subject "Health services accessibility"

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    Navigating Health Care Worlds: Community, Belonging, and Care at Haverford College During the Covid-19 Pandemic
    (2024) Komatsu, Naomi Bleier; Sertbulut, Zeynep
    The Covid-19 pandemic had a profound impact on how individuals and communities care for one another. It exposed and compounded the structural inequalities that are faced by marginalized communities worldwide. At Haverford College, students, staff, and faculty experienced the pandemic in different ways, depending on their social positions in the community and the wider world. The pandemic made visible an insider/outsider dynamic present within the community, but at the same time offered an opportunity for community members to contest and alter this dichotomy. Drawing on an array of anthropological scholarship and ethnographic fieldwork, including participant-observation and semi-structured interviews, that I conducted at Haverford College in the winter of 2024, this thesis addresses questions of institutional and community imperatives to provide care during the Covid-19 pandemic; what it means to belong in this community; and what care practices that are centered on an awareness of structural inequalities look like. I argue that caring and belonging in the Haverford College community are intimately linked, and involve demonstrating the values of the imagined insider: a person dedicated to social justice, egalitarianism, and community. During the pandemic, students, staff, and faculty came together to organize community care practices in order to bring attention to the social hierarchies and structural inequalities present within the Haverford College community. Through these care practices, they attempted to challenge these social structures and demonstrate their worthiness of care and protection by performing the role of an imagined insider.
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    Raising Children on the Autism Spectrum: The Impact of Socioeconomic Differences on Treatment and "Recovery"
    (2013) Sendrow, Lisa; Muñoz, Braulio, 1946-
    For this paper, I focus on the disparities that exist from raising children with autism from marginalized communities. Anthropology has an important role to play in the ways that members of society view people with autism, and to navigate this concept, I interviewed fourteen therapists, parents, program directors, researchers and social workers who have invested time and energy in working with children on the spectrum. I also used books and articles to supplement interviews. Of particular importance was how income, culture, and race affected the treatment and care that the children would receive, and how parents would try to overcome societal obstacles to obtain the best care. I found that demographics and socioeconomic background highly impacted treatment.