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Global Health for All: Knowledge, Politics, and Practices eBook PDF
Global Health for All trains a critical lens on global health to share the stories that global health’s practices and logics tell about 20th and 21st century configurations of science and power. An ethnography on multiple scales, the book focuses on global health’s key epistemic and therapeutic practices like localization, measurement, triage, markets, technology, care, and regulation. Its roving approach traverses policy centers, sites of intervention, and innumerable spaces in between to consider what happens when globalized logics, circulations, and actors work to imagine, modify, and manage health. By resting in these in-between places, Global Health for All simultaneously examines global health as a coherent system and as a dynamic, unpredictable collection of modular parts.
About the Author
ANDREW MCDOWELL is an assistant professor of anthropology at Tulane University. McDowell is one of the leading social science experts on tuberculosis in India and has published in venues spanning from The Lancet to Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
CLAUDIA LANG is the Heisenberg Associate Professor of anthropology at the University of Leipzig. She is the author of Depression in Karala: Ayurveda and Mental Health Care in 21st-Century India and a co-editor with William Sax of The Movement for Global Mental Health: Critical Views from South and Southeast Asia .
CLAIRE BEAUDEVIN is a medical anthropologist and a researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France. She is the co-editor of Global Health and the New World Order: Historical and Anthropological Approaches to a Changing Regime of Governance.
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