Global Health And The New World Order: Historical And Anthropological Approaches To A Changing Regime Of Governance (Social Histories Of Medicine, 36)

This book proposes an encompassing view of the transition from international public health to global health, bringing together historians and anthropologists exploring the relationship between knowledge, practices and policies. Historical and anthropological studies of the governance of health outside Europe and North America leave us with two gaps. The first is a temporal gap between the historiography of international public health through the 1970s and the numerous current anthropological studies of global health. The second gap originates in problems of scale. Macro-inquiries of institutions and politics abound, as do micro-investigations of local configurations. The book interrogates these gaps through an engagement between the disciplines, the harnessing of concepts (circulation, scale, transnationalism) that cross both domains, and the selection of four domains of interventions and globalisation: tuberculosis, mental health, medical genetics and traditional (Asian) medicines.

• | Author: Jean-Paul Gaudilliere, Claire Beaudevin, Christoph Gradmann, Laurent Pordi, Anne M. Lovell
• | Publisher: Manchester University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 06, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 248 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1526149672
• | ISBN-13: 9781526149671