Epidemic Illusions
On the Coloniality of Global Public Health
A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global inequities.In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson, a physician and an anthropologist, contends that public health practices--from epidemiological modeling and outbreak containment to Big Data and causal inference--play an essential role in perpetuating a range of global inequities. Drawing on postcolonial theory, medical anthropology, and critical science studies, Richardson demonstrates the ways in which the flagship discipline of epidemiology has been shaped by the colonial, racist, and patriarchal…
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Weitere Autoren: Farmer, Paul
- ISBN: 978-0-262-04560-5
- EAN: 9780262045605
- Produktnummer: 33799884
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Abbildungen: Farb. Abb.
Über den Autor
Eugene T. Richardson, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Visiting Faculty at the University of Global Health Equity in Butaro, Rwanda, and Chair of the Lancet Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice. Paul Farmer, University Professor at Harvard and cofounder of Partners In Health, is author of Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History.
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