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- Convenor:
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Triinu Mets
(NomadIT)
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- Chair:
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Muhammad Mustofa
(University of Indonesia)
- Track:
- Life and Death
- Location:
- University Place 6.211
- Sessions:
- Thursday 8 August, -
Time zone: Europe/London
Short Abstract:
Health sciences have created technical and medical innovation. However, its community is faced by bio-psycho-socio and cultural problems of: medical human resources (legally); social, economic, and educational limitation; different response of rural-urban communities, also developing and developed countries
Long Abstract:
The international society legally has chosen the modern medicine as one of medication sources; however this has a continuous problem. Related to existing dramatic innovations on curative and preventive health, genetic engineering to overcome some technical and medical problems, and so on, the international health communities are faced by bio-psycho-socio-and cultural problems: how can people humanly control the biology processes on sickness, death, and the old age; the medical application on preventive and curative action is forced and limited by social and economic factors; there is a different response to modern medicine by people of developing and developed countries, in rural-urban communities, including a freedom and people (human) right for protecting their health situation. Particularly, there are problems on human mentality related to law and medicine, faced by people in choosing their medical interests, because of the following: the economical benefit of medicament industries versus social (humanly) interests in obtaining medicament, and medical human resources problem in legal and social context. This panel invites papers about: the conditions of medical malpractice; mortality rate in the context of health science; social-economic, human right, and physical condition, how to use the benefit of modern medicine, that affect the distribution of disease, morbidity and mortality; including the use of modern, alternative, and folk medicine; how to determine a natural partus, effected by an interaction between pregnant women and physicians; the social choice of household, where and when to give birth; and whatever topics related to this panel.
Accepted papers:
Session 1 Thursday 8 August, 2013, -Syaifudin Zakir (Sriwijaya University)
Paper short abstract:
Providing health facility for everyone is one of the government obligation to support the one basic human right, in fact when this obligation went to the poor community some challenges and dilemmas will intricate in respond.
Paper long abstract:
Insuring the poor health by the government in Indonesia has started nation wide since 2004 through the constitution amendment and national health act. The program itself brought a good horizon to help the poor to access all the health services which seem very difficult to them to afford. In the implementation this program become vary in responds. In South Sumatera Province, the local government claim as the "pioneer" as the free services provider for the health for the poor, also bring the intricate challenge and dilemmas to cover all the premises as their published to the poor. The responds from the poor and the services provider become a rich sources to discuss including the satisfaction of the recipient of the health insurance still far from their expectation.
Rusmin Tumanggor (Faculty of Pedagogy The Atae of Islamic University Sarif Hidayatullah Jakarta Indonesia)
Paper short abstract:
The policy of National Health System in Indonesia, protected and supported people’s basic right for their medication and ideal health. In fact, there are medication experience of patients improperly, in the late time and died. Ironically, the law and its apparatus not on its right function.
Paper long abstract:
This paper description concerning the elemental data as patients view, based on the informants experience as ex-patients, and family member of the ex-patients, related to the situation when patients have been handled by a hospital and a certain physician. Data's collection related to research result by depth and opened interview supported by library study and content analysis toward related writings, about the medication experiences of informants with improper and proper way, malpractise, affected a physical disability, even a death; and an experience of a defeat in malpractise court, also particularly about general data specially certain legal transgression in the context of health and medicine
Atho BinSmith (Faculty of Law, University of Sam Ratulangi)
Paper short abstract:
The Indonesian medical and health services has lately changed from humanity minded to business minded. In case of a therapy or malpractice, is hard for the patients to make litigation before the court.This unbalanced social and cultural situation provokes a human right violations in the country.
Paper long abstract:
Legal and human rights protection are not sufficient in solving toward medical problem. The patients were often treated inhuman and indiscriminately, because of the profit chasing by the physicians and the hospitals management, and the patients natural rights easily violated. Under analyzing based on the qualitative normative research, indicates that the economic, cultural, legal, education, and environmental problems are the main factors influencing the moral values.However, the change of the practitioners mental attitude in the health service which previously are more directed towards "profit-taking" should be admitted as an influence of the people's social development complexities.In case of malpractice, it is hard to make litigation in supporting the patients rights as a legal summon before the court.The Indonesian Act of Human Rights Protections No.39/1999 and the Health Care Act No.23/1999 for the health and Human Rights protection have not given much improvements to this problem. Principally, the physician and their patients relationship are bound by the Professional Ethic Code. Thus, the legal guarantee and human rights protection to both sides are firmly guarded. However, most of the physicians have an "privilege access" by which they considered as a "right" not as "responsibility". This attitude has potentially produced a prolonged unbalanced social and cultural situation that inflicts a loss upon the patients.
Elena Ragragio (University of the Philippines-Manila)
Paper short abstract:
The food plants by the Aetas has changed after Mt. Pinatubo eruption 1991.When they were placed in refugee camps areas, the government provided food mainly rice and canned goods. In 20 years after the eruption the food resources of them have changed together with their dietary condition.
Paper long abstract:
The plants used as food by the Aeta communities has changed after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in 1991. Twenty years after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo, the plant food resources of the Aeta have changed together with the diet of the people. The ethnobotanical study of the plant food resources and traditional plant knowledge was conducted in three barangays (villages) of the Mag-indi and Mag-anchi enthnolinguistic groups of the Aeta. Sixty-nine informants/participants were interviewed from the 3 barangays.
A total of 106 plants were used as food and for commercial crops. Most of the plants were available in the local markets. Some were planted by the Aeta as source of income to buy rice and other necessities. Analysis of the results showed that the local knowledge is held mainly by the elders although some young people were also familiar with the plants. Likewise, the erosion of the plant knowledge may be due to habitat destruction, continuing commerce and interaction with the local people, and ease in procurement of rice and other food plants from the local markets. There is also a level of acculturation due to the incursion and influence of media in local TV.
Cynthia Neri Zayas (University of the Philippines)
Paper short abstract:
Tamaan ka sana ng kidlat is a curse. To the Ayta it included as a dreaded affliction if one breaks taboo,related prohibitions in vast plant/animal life knowledge. The paper about Ayta intimacy with the environment to tsibi use and will analyze their culture in the context of modern medicine.
Paper long abstract:
Tsibi or tsimbi is a generic term meaning lightning attack caused by breaking a taboo. To this curse, several prohibitions are called for. For example, carrying squash and sweet potato in one basket is taboo because both manifest the "reddish" color. Red attracts lightning is the guiding principle of this belief. Laughing when seeing the act of sexual intercourse of either humans or animals, telling jokes when cooking food obtained from the wild, or simply ridiculing or "disrespecting" natural behavior or the wild likewise provoke tsibi. A person lugging meat of wild deer and another carrying shrimp should never go together, earth and water never go together as a rule. A direct hit, tinalo ning kilat, will cause death while an indirect hit can be healed with the help of a medium and medicinal plants. Having charms such as gogot kilat (thunder teeth) can protect a possessor. Data will be analyzed in 2 ways -from Ayta culture and cosmopolitan modern medicine.
Parvathi Iyer (Central University of Gujarat, India)
Paper short abstract:
This paper examines a controversial drug, Nimesulide, including its entry and marketing in India and the subsequent litigation related to its safety/efficacy issues in the larger context of the pharmaceutical industry's relative power to shape knowledge claims about drugs.
Paper long abstract:
The present paper examines the case of a 'controversial' drug, Nimesulide. Through a detailed documentation of the drug's entry and marketing in India and the subsequent litigation in connection with its safety and efficacy issues, the paper attempts to examine the relative power of the pharmaceutical industry in the shaping of knowledge claims and attributes related to the potency, safety and efficacy of drugs in India. The paper commences with an outlining of the history pertaining to the discovery of the drug in the United States and its approval in a few European countries. It then examines the broad context of its entry in the Indian market and its 'success' as a revenue-generating drug among domestic manufacturers. The subsequent sections of the paper examine the trajectory of the litigation in connection with the drug in India, including the arguments and counter-arguments put forward by the parties to the litigation and the judgment by the Delhi High court on the drug. The paper concludes with a discussion of how the attributes of the drug were represented by different sets of actors, including the petitioner, the print media, health activists, firms, regulatory officials and the medico-scientific community, in the course of the litigation, in order to justify their assessments of the drug and its implications for the shaping of the safety and efficacy related attributes of the drug and its therapeutic career.