Global Health and the New World Order: Historical and Anthropological Approaches to a Changing Regime of Governance Gaudillire Jean-Paul
Global Health and the New World Order: Historical and Anthropological Approaches to a Changing Regime of Governance Gaudillire Jean-Paul The phrase 'global health' appears ubiquitously in…
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Global Health and the New World Order: Historical and Anthropological Approaches to a Changing Regime of Governance Gaudillire Jean-Paul
The phrase 'global health' appears ubiquitously in contemporary medical spheres, from academic research programs to websites of pharmaceutical companies. This book explores the origins of global health, a new regime of health intervention in countries of the global South born around 1990, examining its assemblages of knowledge, practices and policies.The volume proposes an encompassing view of the transition from international public health to global health, bringing together historians and anthropologists to analyse why new modes of "interventions on the life of others" recently appeared and how they blur the classical divides between North and South. In its most visible manifestation, global health refers to strategies addressing major epidemics and endemic conditions through philanthropy, and multilateral, private-public partnerships.
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