Global Health for All

Knowledge, Politics, and Practices
Herausgeber: Gaudillière, Jean-Paul; Beaudevin, Claire; Lang, Claudia; McDowell, Andrew

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Produktbeschreibung

Global Health for All is a deeply historical and ethnographically rich analysis of health at a global scale. It combines sixteen inquiries into actors, institutions, objects, and ideas at the centers and margins of global health, to give a uniquely collaborative account of health’s entanglement with development, science, and globalization. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 159mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 377g
• ISBN-13: 9781978827400
• ISBN-10: 1978827407
• Artikelnr.: 63052768

Autorenporträt

JEAN-PAUL GAUDILLIÈRE is a distinguished historian of science and senior researcher at the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) in France. From 2009 to 2019, he was the director of Europe's most prominent institute for the social study of medicine, CERMES3. He is the author of nine English-language edited volumes on the history of medicine and the life sciences.  ANDREW MCDOWELL is an assistant professor of anthropology at Tulane University. McDowell is one of the leading social science experts on tuberculosis in India and has published in venues spanning from The Lancet  to Medical Anthropology Quarterly. CLAUDIA LANG is the Heisenberg Associate Professor of anthropology at the University of Leipzig. She is the author of Depression in Karala: Ayurveda and Mental Health Care in 21st-Century India and a co-editor with William Sax of The Movement for Global Mental Health: Critical Views from South and Southeast Asia .  CLAIRE BEAUDEVIN is a medical anthropologist and a researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France. She is the co-editor of Global Health and the New World Order: Historical and Anthropological Approaches to a Changing Regime of Governance. 

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: A Story with Sixteen Tellers by Andrew McDowell, Claire
Beaudevin, Claudia Lang, Jean-Paul Gaudillière
Introduction: Health Universalism and the Health of Others by Jean-Paul
Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, Claudia Lang
Periodization
A Field and What Else?
The Game of Scales
Standardization
What’s Neoliberal in Global Health?
Multi-scalar methodologies
Chapter 1: Localization in the Global by Andrew McDowell, Lucile Ruault,
Olivia Fiorilli, Laurent Pordié
Grounding localization
The Local as Site of Innovation
SkyCare and the Virtual Global
Community: The Discursive Local
The Local as Hub of Global Circulations
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Metrics for Development by Anne M. Lovell, Jean-Paul
Gaudillière, Claudia Lang, Claire Beaudevin
Introduction
Global Burden of Disease Season 1: The World Bank’s Tool for Prioritizing
Health Investments
Putting GBD 1 to Use: The Real but Problematic “Economization” of National
Investments in Health
Global Burden of Disease, Season 2 (GBD 2): Limitations and Legitimation
Challenging GBD 2
Crises of ownership and counting
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Triage Beyond the Clinic by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew
McDowell, Claudia Lang, Claire Beaudevin
Political Triage and its Economic Alternative: The Primary Health Care
Strategy and its Eclipse
Strategy in Practice—The Essential Drugs List and the Rise of the
“Selective” Primary Health Care
The 1990s and Its Aftermath: Performance-Based Triage and the World Bank
Triage toward Disease Control: Tuberculosis and “Verticalization” in Global
Health
Comprehensive Primary Healthcare, Medical Genetics, and Task Shifting in
Oman
Distributed Political Triage in Kerala
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Markets, Medicines, and Health Globalization by Caroline Meier
zu Biesen, Laurent Pordié, Jessica Pourraz, Jean-Paul Gaudillière
Introduction
Toward a Global Market: Branded Artemisinin Drugs Reaching Tanzania
Rethinking Medicine Making: The Local Production of Generic Anti-Malarials
in Ghana
The Reformulation Regime: Industrial Ayurveda Goes Global
Transactions at the Interstices: The Licit and Illicit Circulation of Drugs
in Cambodia
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Tech for All by Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, Mandy Geise,
Sameea Ahmed Hassim, Vegard Sture
The Launching of a Depression Technopack
A Sliding Scale: TB
GeneXpert: Of Genes and Experts
Technopacking Genomics, Mestizaje and Diabetes in Mexico
Cuba’s Prenatal Screening Technopack
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Persistent Hospitals by Claire Beaudevin, Fanny Chabrol, Claudia
Lang
Introduction
Crafting Medical Genetics in an Omani Hospital
Providing Multidrug-resistant Treatment in a Tuberculosis Hospital in
Tanzania
The Mental Hospital and Community Mental Health in India
Conclusion
Chapter 7: Provincializing the WHO by Christoph Gradmann, Olivia Fiorilli,
Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Caroline Meier zu Biesen, Lucile Ruault, Simeng Wang
Tuberculosis, the Making of DOTS and the Decline of Primary Health Care
The WHO and the World Bank: Revisiting the “Take-over”
The WHO and the Missed Opportunity for a Global Agenda on Human Genetics,
1980s–2000s
Transregional Health Encounters: Indian Ayurveda, African markets, and the
WHO’s Guiding Principles
A Road to Africa – China and Global Health
Conclusion
Epilogue: The Health of Others, Covid-19 and BeyondClaudia Lang, Andrew
McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, Jean-Paul Gaudillière
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index