Global Health for All: Knowledge, Politics, and Practices

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.

Author: Jean-Paul Gaudillière
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 04/15/2022
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9781978827400
ISBN10: 1978827407
BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Health Care Delivery
- Social Science | Disease & Health Issues
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social

About the Author
JEAN-PAUL GAUDILLIÈRE is a distinguished historian of science and senior researcher at the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) in France. From 2009 to 2019, he was the director of Europe's most prominent institute for the social study of medicine, CERMES3. He is the author of nine English-language edited volumes on the history of medicine and the life sciences.

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.