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The Worlds of Public Health

Anthropological Excursions
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
272 Seiten
Englisch
Wiley & Sonserschienen am30.06.20231. Auflage
Public health erupted into the world´s consciousness in early 2020 with the Covid pandemic and its multiple social and economic consequences. What had been until then, for most people, a remote and specialized field of expertise suddenly became the very basis for the government of lives. The Worlds of Public Health analyzes the moral and political issues at stake in the practice of public health today, including the influence of positivism, the boundaries of disease, conspiracy theories, morality tests, and the challenges posed by the health of migrants and prisoners. This exploration transports readers from South Africa, the country most impacted by the AIDS epidemic, to Ecuador, with the supposedly highest maternal mortality rate in Latin America; from the scientific controversies concerning the so-called worm wars in Kenya to conflicts between doctors and patients around Gulf War syndrome in the United States; from lead poisoning and public housing in France to the Covid-19 pandemic worldwide. Through these case studies, Didier Fassin argues that, ultimately, public health is a politics of life, revealing the different and unequal ways in which life is valued - and either protected or not - in contemporary societies.mehr
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Produkt

KlappentextPublic health erupted into the world´s consciousness in early 2020 with the Covid pandemic and its multiple social and economic consequences. What had been until then, for most people, a remote and specialized field of expertise suddenly became the very basis for the government of lives. The Worlds of Public Health analyzes the moral and political issues at stake in the practice of public health today, including the influence of positivism, the boundaries of disease, conspiracy theories, morality tests, and the challenges posed by the health of migrants and prisoners. This exploration transports readers from South Africa, the country most impacted by the AIDS epidemic, to Ecuador, with the supposedly highest maternal mortality rate in Latin America; from the scientific controversies concerning the so-called worm wars in Kenya to conflicts between doctors and patients around Gulf War syndrome in the United States; from lead poisoning and public housing in France to the Covid-19 pandemic worldwide. Through these case studies, Didier Fassin argues that, ultimately, public health is a politics of life, revealing the different and unequal ways in which life is valued - and either protected or not - in contemporary societies.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-5095-5828-5
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2023
Erscheinungsdatum30.06.2023
Auflage1. Auflage
Seiten272 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht480 g
Artikel-Nr.60043629

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
PrefaceThe Birth of Public HealthThe Truth in NumbersEpistemic BoundariesConspiracy TheoriesEthical CrisesPrecarious ExilesCarceral OrdealsReadings of the PandemicEndnotesBibliographymehr
Kritik
"Didier Fassin reinvents the image and language of public health through a daring 'shift of gaze.' These compelling lectures offer radical new perspectives on what it means to live under perpetual threat in the 21st century."
Richard Horton, The Lancet

"Trespassing disciplinary boundaries and challenging methodological detachment, Didier Fassin's timely excursion is a master class in 'intellectual dishabituation.' Set against a ravaging Covid pandemic, Fassin's latest tour de force urges us to rethink the biopolitical and the ethical from the ground up. A much-needed compass for our imperiled present."
João Biehl, Princeton Universitymehr