The Site of Lead Poisoning in El Salvador
Authors:
Hugo De Burgos
Date:
2011
ISBN: 978-0-9865387-4-2
Abstract:
The World Health Organization claims that more than 10 micrograms per deciliter of blood in a person poses a serious health risk. In the Sitio del Niño community in El Salvador some people have more than 50 micrograms.
This ethnographic documentary tells the story of this community’s subjective experience of lead contamination and its struggle for health and social justice.
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Hugo De Burgos was a medical anthropologist, filmmaker, activist, academic, musician, poet, and a professor of medical anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Canada. Among his more recent distinctions was the recognition as one of the ten most influential Hispanics in Canada in 2013. In 2012 received the Paul Farmer Award by his work as a teacher of higher education highlighted. In 2010, he received the Public Anthropology’s Eleanor Roosevelt Global Citizenship Award. Less than 1% of the professors of anthropology in North America receive this recognition. He has also received fellowships in the social sciences by the Izaak Killam Memorial Scholarships and Government of Canada’s Social Sciences Award. Member of the national associations of anthropology in Canada and the United States, and in 1998, also along with his wife Cecilia, founded the Museum of Ethnology and history Octavio Burgos, in his native San Sebastian, in the Department of San Vicente, El Salvador.
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