“Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.” TryingYearsHas BeensProblemRunningDifficultCommunityDealsStruggleIssuesViolenceGenerationsSuicideMedicalStolenPreventionAboriginalFamily RelationshipHealth ServicesMedical Problems Author:Malcolm Fraser
“We can't handle violence in women characters but we CAN handle what's done to women in our present tense every second of the day worldwide? Or next door? Or in political or medical discourse? Please. That idea just makes me want to crap on a table at a very fancy restaurant.” WantIdeasDoneCharacterPoliticalNextViolenceDoorsPleaseTablesMedicalHandleFancyRestaurantsCrapDiscourseTenseEvery SecondPresent Tense Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying to persuade medical and psychiatrist establishments to deal with the intersex involves critique of the binary gender system. Similarly there continues to be extreme, sometimes very extreme violence against transgender people.” PeopleTryingSometimesBodySeemsBornDealsViolenceFemaleMalesExtremesGenderMedicalEstablishmentTransgenderPsychiatristCritiqueContinuumBinaryIntersex Author:Judith Butler
“Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.” WarBreakViolenceMedicalBreaking Down Author:Bill Gates
“Do you know what the largest single cause of death in South Africa is? The largest single cause of death is what in the medical statistics is called external causes and that is violence in the society. For instance I've seen figures that say that if you take the male age cohort from16 to 45 years, 54% of the people who die in that age cohort die from external causes.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsAgeDiesCausesViolenceFiguresSouthMalesMedicalInstanceStatisticsDo You KnowSouth Africa Author:Thabo Mbeki