sociology
A pregnant woman chooses to give birth in her own home rather than in the hospital. Another woman has to stumble down a mile of a rocky hillside to get medical attention. Another woman has to borrow money from her neighbors, putting her family in debt, all to pay for the care of a doctor. This is happening in China. It is happening in many other nations as well. Women, children, and the poorer class in general are being ignored as their respective societies move forward in the name of progress. This is all detailed in the New York Times article "As China Trims Health Care, The Rural Poor Suffer." China's market-oriented development has deprived the rural population of the popular "barefoot doctors" and free clinics that once were found throughout China's countryside. The centralization of many of China's social systems, including health care, has left those in the rural areas out in the cold. There are those that argue that this economically-motivated development vio!lates the basic rights of these individuals who suffer because of it. The capabilities approach, developed in part by Amartya Sen, can be used to show how such a method of development deprives these people o
The capabilities approach was designed to provide "an account of basic constitutional principles that should be respected and implemented by the governments of all nations, as a bare minimum of what respect for human dignity requires." This approach is designed with the interests of each individual in mind, rather than overlooking the less fortunate while concentrating on the goal of the society as a whole. By capability, we mean what a person is able to do or to be. Among all of the capabilities of human beings are central capabilities that are universal. Each one of us can be expected to live up to these. These capabilities, it is argued, should be pursued for each and every person, treating each individual person as his or her own end, rather than as a tool for the end of someone else. Around the world, women are important to identifying areas in which these capabilities are not being met satisfactorily because women often suffer from capability failure and their sit! "Our economic needs should not be met by denying liberty." The market-oriented development of nations has posed several problems. First, in an effort to be more efficient, the state has centralized its sub-divisions, treating them more like small businesses than social services. Instead of having them where they are needed, the state has moved them to where it is most cost-efficient to have them. While this may be beneficial to the government in countries like China, it makes it harder on Zhang Youlian and her family, who live in rural areas that used to depend on the "barefoot doctors" and free clinics. The market requires a social structure upon which to implement it, as well
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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