Eugene T. Richardson, Paul Farmer

Epidemic Illusions

On the Coloniality of Global Public Health

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Produktbeschreibung

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 system that had its inception in 1492.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 205mm x 137mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780262045605
• ISBN-10: 0262045605
• Artikelnr.: 59260261

Autorenporträt

Eugene T Richardson; foreword by Paul Farmer

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Paul Farmer
Preface
Dedication
Part I: Carnivalization
Introduction: Pr [Global Health Equity Coloniality]
Redescription 1: Colonizer, Interrupted (Flash Fiction)
Redescription 2: The Allegory of the Warren (Platonic Dialogues)
Redescription 3: The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of Lake Geneva
(Nacireman Ethnography)
Redescription 4: WHO's Semiosis (Semiotics)
Redescription 5: The Ebola Suspect's Dilemma (Call and Response)
Redescription 6: Not-so-big Data and Immodest Causal Inference (Symbolic
Reparations)
Redescription 7: Ebola Vaccines and the Ideal Speech Situation (Border
Gnosis)
Redescription 8: The Race-PrEP Study (Counterhegemonic Modeling)
Pre-Appendix
Conclusion: The Epistemic Reformation
Part II: Use Your Illusion
Affterword: Pandemicity, COVID-19, and the Limits of Public Health
"Science"
Notes
Index