The Loving Story documentary

ASSIGNMENT Tell a Story: Please watch (Links to an external site.) The Loving Story documentary, read  (Links to an external site.)the summary of the court case, and individually complete 3 parts of the assignment as described below. You can discuss with your group although it is not required. Each Assignment Part is worth 5 points assigned as follows: 1 pt for spelling, grammar, punctuation, clarity. 2pts for appropriate focus of narrative on health care access. 2pts for quality of narrative. Part 1: Tell their Story (about 500 words; 5pts) How might inequalities have affected the Loving’s health care experiences? Prior to the US Supreme Court decision in favor of their case (about 1958 to 1967), what do you think the Loving’s experience would have been if one of them was sick?  What aspects of their health care experience might have changed in 1967, after the US Supreme Court ruled against the state of Virginia and in the Loving’s favor? In approximately 500 words, tell how you imagine their story might have gone, specifically, with regard to health care access before and after the state of Virginia was forced to recognize their marriage. Need an example? Would the Lovings have been able to fill and pick up prescriptions for each other? become beneficiaries on each other’s health insurance? visit with each other in the hospital?  Part 2: Tell your Story (about 500 words; 5pts) How might inequalities have affected your family’s health care experience in this time period (about 1958-1967)? Each of us comes from a family with our own narratives. What experiences did your family go through about 60 years ago, while the Loving’s case was being decided by the US Supreme Court? In approximately 500 words, relay, generally, what was going on for your family in the late 1950s to 1960s and, specifically, how their circumstances shaped access to health care for these family members. Note: you may need to talk to your family members to find a story to tell for his assignment. If that is a challenge for any reason (e.g., adoption, death, estrangement) please use your imagination to tell the story of what your family might have experienced. Need an example? Here’s what I know about my family’s experiences in this time period: I know that my mother was living in Honolulu, HI, US while my father completed his tour serving in the US Army in the Vietnam Conflict. I know that my parents-in-law were immigrating from Jamshedpur, India to Madison, Wisconsin, US for my father-in-law to start his PhD in Engineering. I could tell the story of my parents-in-law working to document their date of birth and vaccination history on the appropriate government forms in order to secure visas BEFORE the internet existed (I don’t know how they did it honestly). And/or I could relay a story about the health care available to military wives at Tripler Army hospital compared to the field medicine practiced in my father’s military unit. This is my story so I get to tell it how I want, as long as the story is about health care access,  contextualized by being personal and during the time period in which the Lovings fought their court battle, and I tell the story in about 500 words. Part 3: Compare/Contrast the stories (about 500 words; 5pts) How was your family’s story different from/similar to the Loving’s? Need an example? In the state of Virginia prior to 1967, neither my parents nor my parents in law would have been jailed for their marriage, as my parents were both white and my parents-in-law were both Southeast Asian, so neither marriage violated Virginia’s antimiscegenation law. Because my parents-in-law came to the US on student + dependents visas, they had access to health care through the University of Wisconsin. My mother-in-law was a licensed doctor in India but was unable to practice medicine in the US until completing her US license. While she was not able to practice medicine, her medical knowledge enhanced her ability to care for herself and my father-in-law. My mother received excellent care as a military spouse, and still talks about the excellent maternity care provided at Tripler Army Hospital, “the big pink hospital on the hill”. My father received ok field care while serving in Vietnam. His care when he returned should have been good, but issues within the VA system prevented optimal care. These issues, including systematic denial about certain pathologies resulting from service (e.g., neurologic damage attributable to Agent Orange exposure) and lack of portability of VA-based medical records, have finally improved in the last decade. (The text above is about 185 words. To fulfill the terms of the assignment, I would need about triple the length (185*3=555 words), remembering to maintain high-quality of narrative focus throughout). Charon R. Narrative Medicine: A Model for Empathy, Reflection, Profession, and Trust. JAMA. 2001;286(15):1897–1902. doi:10.1001/jama.286.15.1897 https://jamanetwork-com.proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/journals/jama/fullarticle/194300