The Worlds of Public Health (eBook)

Anthropological Excursions

Didier Fassin (Autor)

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2023
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-5095-5851-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Didier Fassin is Professor at the Collège de France and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and Director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Inhalt

Preface

The Birth of Public Health

The Truth in Numbers

Epistemic Boundaries

Conspiracy Theories

Ethical Crises

Precarious Exiles

Carceral Ordeals

Readings of the Pandemic

Endnotes

Bibliography

Rezensionen

"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 University

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.6.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: AIDS • Allg. Public Health • Anthropologie • Anthropology • anthropology of public health • Biopolitics • Conspiracy theories • Covid-19 • Disease • Epidemics • Foucault • Gesundheits- u. Sozialwesen • Health • Health & Social Care • lead poisoning • Maternal mortality • Medical Anthropology • Medicine • Medizinische Anthropologie • Pandemic • Public Health • Public Health General • Sociology • Sociology of Health & Illness • Sociology of Health and Illness • Soziologie • Soziologie d. Gesundheit u. Krankheit
• ISBN-10: 1-5095-5851-9 / 1509558519
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-5851-3 / 9781509558513