Marginalization and Privilege in the Structural Violence of Modern Society Author, physician, and anthropologist Paul Farmer focuses on structural violence in his book Infections and Inequalities. Structural violence is not only the social and economic inequality of today, but also the oppression and exploitation that has been ongoing and occurring for generations. Current programs to alleviate inequality are important, but many people fail to consider that marginalized people are not just marginalized today, but their families have been marginalized for centuries. People argue that a number of years have passed since slavery and civil rights and oppose the continuation of programs to address disparities. Opposition to social programs like welfare is widespread in America. But structural violence isn't just about today's staggering, undeniable and growing inequality, it's about centuries of marginalization that simply cannot be fixed. Structural violence is the exploitation and manipulation of the poor or victims by powerful people and companies. A person's lack of resources, whether the cause or effect of structural violence, is not just a lack of money, but also if a government or health provider decides to make interventions available to some but not others, or to focus on prevention at local level. for the sake of care. For example, in class we first watched a film about the immoral and criminal Tuskegee experiments, in which doctors observed the progression of syphilis in black men in Alabama without informing the men that they had syphilis and that they could cure it, when they could. Human rights lawyer Terry Cullingsworth states that: “The fact that they went to Guatemala is at least partly due to… the middle of paper… always disagreeing. The risk factors of the disease are never culture. Illness is not desired by a society. Paul Farmer writes more about structural violence and disease. He says that, in fact, disease is the embodiment of structural violence. The infectious diseases he talks about in his book, such as HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, are mainly caused by structural violence and that this has been ignored by doctors and anthropologists. It is a popular American ideal to value choice as freedom and watch over the rest of the world without aiding its suffering. Americans believe we spend too much on foreign aid and that we should focus our efforts on domestic problems, including health outcomes. However, even if we value our borders, diseases do not respect borders and can spread among our poor as easily as among the poor of other nations..