Posthumanism and Public Health (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Cohn, Simon; Lynch, Rebecca

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Contributions draw on arguments that humans should not always be accorded an exceptional status in accounts of social and cultural life. It explores alternative formations that examine the mutual relationships between people; other living things; objects; and environments. It was originally published as a special issue of Critical Public Health.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 122
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351591294
• Artikelnr.: 57432128

Autorenporträt

Simon Cohn is Professor in Medical Anthropology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK. Drawing increasingly on science studies and practice theory, his research has focused on issues related to diagnosis, contested conditions and chronic illness in the UK and other high-income societies. Rebecca Lynch is a Research Fellow in Medical Anthropology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK. Her research is interested in constructions of the body, health and illness particularly in relation to morality, values and categorisation. She has undertaken ethnographic fieldwork in Trinidad and research projects in the UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Posthuman perspectives: relevance for a global public health
1. On difference and doubt as tools for critical engagement with public
health 2. Posthumanist critique and human health: how nonhumans (could)
figure in public health research 3. Who or what is 'the public' in critical
public health? Reflections on posthumanism and anthropological engagements
with One Health 4. Enacting toxicity: epidemiology and the study of air
pollution for public health 5. The injecting 'event': harm reduction beyond
the human 6. Biopolitical precarity in the permeable body: the social lives
of people, viruses and their medicines 7. Beyond the person: the
construction and transformation of blood as a resource 8. Technologies of
the self in public health: insights from public deliberations on cognitive
and behavioural enhancement 9. Commentary: Pigs in public health