Epidemic Illusions

On the Coloniality of Global Public Health

Eugene T. Richardson, Paul Farmer (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2020
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-04560-5 (ISBN)

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In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson makes a provocative claim- that public health science manages and maintains global health inequity. Richardson, a physician and and anthropologist, examines the conventional public health approach to epidemiology through the lens of a participant-observer, identifying a dogmatic commitment to the quantitative paradigm. This paradigm, he argues, plays a role in causing and perpetrating public health crises. The mechanisms of public health science--and epidemiology in particular--that set public health agendas and claim a monopoly on truth stem from a colonial, racist, and patriarchal system that had its inception in 1492.

Eugene T. Richardson, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Visiting Faculty at the University of Global Health Equity in Butaro, Rwanda. Paul Farmer, cofounder of Partners in Health, is author of To Repair the World.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.01.2021
Zusatzinfo	9 colour illustrations., 43 black and white illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	137 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	0-262-04560-5 / 0262045605
ISBN-13	978-0-262-04560-5 / 9780262045605
Zustand	Neuware