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Global health for all : knowledge, politics, and practices /

"The Health of Others 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 t...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Gaudillière, Jean-Paul, 1957- (Éditeur intellectuel), McDowell, Andrew (Éditeur intellectuel), Lang, Claudia (Éditeur intellectuel), Beaudevin, Claire (Éditeur intellectuel), Fiorilli, Olivia, Ruault, Lucile, Lovell, Anne M., Biesen, Caroline Meier Zu, Pourraz, Jessica, Sture, Vegard Traavik
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2022.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:"The Health of Others 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, The Health of Others simultaneously examines global health as a coherent system and as a dynamic, unpredictable collection of modular parts"--
Description matérielle:1 online resource (261 p.)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:197882744X
9781978827448