“Change happens from bottom up”( https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/705554909421121537). Every major claimsmaking group is comprised of multiple subgroups that create change at a local level. Universities Allied for Essential Medicine is one such change-making, global, claimsmaking group that advocates essential medicine as a right, not a privilege. Each claimsmaking group, like UAEM, has grounds, warrants, and conclusions, which allows the group to advocate for its cause. UAEM’s Davis chapter is a paragon of a subgroup that creates local change in the stead of its parent claimsmaking group. It strives to augment essential medicine resources for underprivileged communities using many persuasive strategies like….. Through this endeavor, …show more content…
The major pharmaceutical companies and Universities are making a lot of money on the drug market, but are not caring enough to fund the essential medicine for the ‘neglected diseases’. To promote these grounds, UAEM Davis uses two rhetorical strategies: “statistics” to amplify the amount of diseases that are underrepresented and the “villain/victim narrative” to show who is affected by the high drug prices for patents and prescriptions. Statistics, “[numbers] that suggest the scope of the problem” (Best 33), are shown to represent the level of disregard certain diseases receive in the medical market, like “1.3% of all drugs created in 29 years were for neglected diseases” (http://uaemdavis.wixsite.com/uaem/who-we-are). This statistic clearly establishes the problem of discrimination in disease research and funding, which is leading to many preventable deaths. The second rhetorical strategy that goes hand-in-hand with the statistics is the ‘villain/victim narrative’. “UC medical research yields billions in profits for major pharmaceutical companies, while 10 million people die every year in developing countries because they can’t afford medicines developed right here on our campuses…” …show more content…
During the interview, Kelly stated that “[UC Davis] participated in a ‘dying’ [last year], where people went in front of the pharmaceutical company [Gilead] and laid on the streets, pretending to be dead…[It] sent a powerful message”(Kelly 15:34). The goal of this type of physical protest is to peacefully demonstrate people’s plight due to spiked pharmaceutical prices approximately “820 times” (https://vimeo.com/144622081 1:13 UAEM website). UAEM Davis gets across the message that people cannot stand by allowing pharmaceutical monopolies to crush lower-income (underprivileged) families because that is not the humanitarian way! At the Gilead protest, the UAEM Davis chapter partnered with another Davis organization ‘Act Up’ to help fellow citizens by voicing their concerns on unaffordable healthcare costs, bolstering the value of the group’s humanitarian
Advertisements are constructed to be compelling; nonetheless, not all of them reach their objective and are efficient. It is not always easy to sway your audience unless your ad has a reliable appeal. Ads often use rhetoric to form an appeal, but the appeals can be either strong or weak. When you say an ad has a strong rhetorical appeal, it consists of ethos, pathos, logos, and Kairos. Advertisers use these appeals to cohere with their audience. Nike is known to be one of the leading brands of the sports shoes and apparel. It holds a very wide sector of followers around the world. In the Nike ad, Nike uses a little boy watching other basketball players play, and as the kid keeps growing, his love for basketball keeps growing. Eventually, he
Jared Diamond makes a great and compelling argument about how inequality across the entire globe originated. The main components that were agreeing with this argument were guns germs and steel. Guns meaning the advancement in weaponry, military warfare and military sophistication. Germs meaning the harmful disease and other foul illness that wiped out humans throughout History. Then the third and final point steel, which was about the advancement in societies and the complex sophistication with their technology, which lead to building great architecture and devices that were completely impactful.
People trust doctors to save lives. Everyday millions of Americans swallow pills prescribed by doctors to alleviate painful symptoms of conditions they may have. Others entrust their lives to doctors, with full trust that the doctors have the patient’s best interests in mind. In cases such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, the Crownsville Hospital of the Negro Insane, and Joseph Mengele’s Research, doctors did not take care of the patients but instead focused on their self-interest. Rebecca Skloot, in her contemporary nonfiction novel The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, uses logos to reveal corruption in the medical field in order to protect individuals in the future.
Anticipation is prevalent throughout The Road, which is set by the narrative pace, creating a tense and suspenseful feeling and tone.
In the book Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer wrote about Christopher McCandless, a nature lover in search for independence, in a mysterious and hopeful experience. Even though Krakauer tells us McCandless was going to die from the beginning, he still gave him a chance for survival. As a reader I wanted McCandless to survive. In Into the Wild, Krakauer gave McCandless a unique perspective. He was a smart and unique person that wanted to be completely free from society. Krakauer included comments from people that said McCandless was crazy, and his death was his own mistake. However, Krakauer is able to make him seem like a brave person. The connections between other hikers and himself helped in the explanation of McCandless’s rational actions. Krakauer is able to make McCandless look like a normal person, but unique from this generation. In order for Krakauer to make Christopher McCandless not look like a crazy person, but a special person, I will analyze the persuading style that Krakauer used in Into the Wild that made us believe McCandless was a regular young adult.
The Prescription for Disaster is written, directed, produced, and hosted by Gary Null. Gary Null received an associate’s degree in business administration. His alma mater is a Mountain State, a 2-year college. He later goes to Union Institute and University for his Ph.D. in human nutrition , but he still does not have enough education or experience to speak on medical drugs compared to others in this field. He offers valid issues in the pharmaceutical industry, but most of his complaints are exaggerated and generalized to all in the medical field. The extreme bias of the Prescription for Disaster puts the validity of this documentary into
In Melody Peterson’s “Our Daily Meds” , the history of marketing and advertising in the pharmaceutical industry is explored. The first chapter of the book, entitled “Creating disease”, focuses on how major pharmaceutical companies successfully create new ailments that members of the public believe exist. According to Peterson, the success that these drug manufacturers have experienced can be attributed to the malleability of disease, the use of influencial people to promote new drugs, the marketing behind pills, and the use of media outlets.
"In the past two decades or so, health care has been commercialized as never before, and professionalism in medicine seems to be giving way to entrepreneurialism," commented Arnold S. Relman, professor of medicine and social medicine at Harvard Medical School (Wekesser 66). This statement may have a great deal of bearing on reality. The tangled knot of insurers, physicians, drug companies, and hospitals that we call our health system is not as unselfish and focused on the patients' needs as people would like to think. Pharmaceutical companies are particularly ruthless, many of them spending millions of dollars per year to convince doctors to prescribe their drugs and to convince consumers that their specific brand of drug is needed in order to cure their ailments. For instance, they may present symptoms that are perfectly harmless, and lead potential citizens to believe that, because of these symptoms, they are "sick" and in need of medication.
Throughout this book, author Robert Welch demonstrates values of compassion, caution, and knowledge. These values interweave in Welch’s explanations of how the healthcare system of this country has so much money invested in it, and yet, manage patients receive so little care. This country has a healthcare system that is currently operating out of a broken model that does not place value on individual health, but on profit incentive.
The United States is world renowned for its medical system. Names like the Mayo Clinic, John Hopkins, and Duke are all common household names when it comes to ground breaking medical service. Many people from across the planet come to the USA to have medical procedures done. But is it really all that? According to Michael Moore and his 2007 documentary entitled, “Sicko” the USA’s medical system is not as great as it seems. Corruption, a word that is defined as the impairment of integrity, virtue, or moral principle, is running rampant in the medical system. Moore uses vivid imagery, intense interviews, and concession to persuade his audience that medical industry is corrupt in a way and that universal or more affordable healthcare is not that
3Walker, Hugh: Market Power and Price levels in the Ethical Drug Industry; Indiana University Press, 1971, P 25.
“The only real nation is humanity” (Farmer 123). This quote represents a huge message that is received in, Tracy Kidder’s, Mountains Beyond Mountains. This book argues that universal healthcare is a right and not a privilege. Kidder’s book also shows the audience that every individual, no matter what the circumstances, is entitled to receive quality health care. In the book Kidder represents, Paul Farmer, a man who spends his entire life determined to improve the health care of impoverished areas around the world, namely Haiti, one of the poorest nations in the world. By doing this the audience learns of the horrible circumstances, and the lack of quality health care that nations like Haiti live with everyday, why every person has the right to healthcare no matter what, and how cost effectiveness should not determine whether or not these people get to live or die. Two texts that also argue this idea are Monte Leach’s “Ensuring Health Care as a Global Human Right,” and Darshak Sanghavi’s “Is it Cost Effective to Treat the World’s Poor.” Leach’s article is an interview with Benjamin Crème that illustrates why food, shelter, education, and healthcare are human rights that have to be available to everyone. He shares many of the same views on health care as Farmer, and the two also share similar solutions to this ongoing problem. Leach also talks about the rapidly growing aids epidemic, and how it must be stopped. Like farmer, he also argues that it is easier to prevent these diseases then to cure them. Furthermore, Sanghavi’s article represents many of the questions that people would ask about cost effectiveness. Yet similar to Farmer’s views, Sanghavi argues that letting the poor d...
In the past, the majority of the African Americans were faced with segregation, poverty, violence, and inequalities. In spite of the civil rights movement most were killed and were lynched. Today, African Americans are more likely suffering from issues, including unemployment, lack of education, poverty, drug abuse, political rights, and injustice. In this rhetorical analysis, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Victor M. Rios explained that people of color still face discrimination, racial injustice, and brutality. Also, these two authors attracted their audiences through persuasive expression, tone, and rational methods to discuss discrimination, racial issues, fears, injustice, and cruelty that govern the society as well. These two authors might be trying to make the large society aware of issues that negatively affect the young males of color and obtain their audience 's advocacy. However, Coates and Rios are different in their
“If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.” This quote by Ralph Merkle shows that something so easily taken for granted is healthcare. Most of us wouldn’t even think about it as a privilege, something that has just always been there and always will. In America, we would never even imagine not being able to receive medical care in our times of need, in other countries that is not at all the case. Many will die from easily preventable and treatable diseases because they do not have medical care. The charity Doctors of the World is committed to helping those who do not have easy access to medical care
"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane." This quote by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a social justice hero, exemplifies the significance in addressing medical injustice. Healthcare injustice can come in several different forms, most notably intentional misdiagnoses. This injustice, although normally neglected, is extremely cruel and indubitably effective. The race is on as the government and the World Health Organization fight to combat this issue. When individuals choose the medical career out of monetary greed, their patients are seen as secondary priorities. This greed paired with significant scientific data restricting the actions of health professionals, can lead unjust treatment