South African physician Solomon Benatar analyses globalization in Donostia today

2001/07/03 Roa Zubia, Guillermo - Elhuyar Zientzia

• Osasuna

Today, at the Miramar Palace in San Sebastian, South African physician Solomon Benatar has offered a conference on ethics in the field of health. First, he has analysed the positive and negative aspect of globalization. Study XX. It has developed it from the collection of contributions of the twentieth century.

In the words of Isaiah Berlin, XX. The twentieth century has been the worst century in Western history. There have been more murders than ever before, accumulation of new weapons (including nuclear weapons), exponential increases in the level of consumption of the population, a sharp increase in the gap between rich and poor, numerous refugee camps and, finally, new health problems.

Benatar recalled that environmental and population circumstances have led to a new distribution of food production. The existence of new ecological niches has led to the emergence of new infectious diseases and the resistance of some organisms to drugs. On the other hand, some diseases considered surpassed in developed countries are serious in Africa. An example of this is tuberculosis.

Solomon Benatar has wanted to vindicate the need to follow a global health ethics and, to a certain extent, wanted to criticize the greatness in Europe and the United States.