Globalization Flashcards
Ethnoscapes
Geographical flow of groups (e.g. tourists, immigrants and refugees)
Technoscapes
Flow of goods and ideas through modes of communication and other technologies of transportation
Mediascapes
Flow of an increasing number of images around globe through media
Ideoscapes
Ideas, terms and images constructed locally and spread globally
Financescapes
Unpredictable and fluid flow of commodities and economic exchange
Free market capitalism
Open economy where vendors can buy and sell w/o any external interference (e.g. gov restrictions, int trade laws, taxes, etc.)
Generic drug
Medication created to be the same as already marketed brand-name drug in dosage form, safety, strength, route of administration, quality, performance characteristics and intended use
Global ethic of responsibility
International morals when responding to epidemics and other health crises
Global health
Collaborative, global solutions to address changing nature of issues we aace
Global humanitarianism
- Addressing human rights violations and inequality on a global scale
- Aim to ensure that basic human rights of all individuals are met
Globality
Process by which entire planet is experienced and conceptualized as a single social space
Globalization
Countries, people and corporations are brought into closer contact w/ one another (easier travel, exchange of ideas, money and resources)
Glocalization
Global expressed in the local, and local as a particularization of the global
Moral distance
Perceive people that are physically close as psychologically distance when we differ from these individuals on levels like ethnicity, religion or culture (e.g. feeling “close to” people on other side of the world because of similar circumstances)
Moral scandal
Violations of human rights that are avoidable
Neoliberalism
- Dervied from liberalism
- Emphasizes capitalism, individual wealth and private property
- Markets are inherently good, self regulating and necessary
One Medicine
Attempt to unite human and verterinary medicine as a result of acknowledgment that humans and animals are interrelated
One Health
- Updated ver. of One Med
- Stresses importance of maintaining the health of all species and overall ecosystem in an increasingly globalized society
Plutocrats
The new global super-rich
Political economy
- Relationship b/w interdependent gov. system and economy
- Inquire into relationship b/w state and market at a given moment in time
Supply chain
Extensive network of systems, components and processes that collectively work to ensure medicines and other health supplies are manufactured, distributed and provided to patients
Trade barriers
Gov-induced restrictions on international trade
