Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health

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Synopsis
A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global inequities.In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson, a physician and an anthropologist, contends that public health practices--from epidemiological modeling and outbreak containment to Big Data and causal inference--play an essential role in perpetuating a range of global inequities. Drawing on postcolonial theory, medical anthropology, and critical science studies, Richardson demonstrates the ways in which the flagship discipline of epidemiology has been shaped by the colonial, racist, and patriarchal system that had its inception in 1492.
Copyright:
2020

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
232 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780262362634
Related ISBNs:
9780262045605
Publisher:
MIT Press
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Copyrighted By:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Medicine, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Foreword by:
Paul Farmer

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