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The Worlds of Public Health
Anthropological Excursions
Taschenbuch von Didier Fassin
Sprache: Englisch

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Public health erupted into the world's consciousness in early 2020 with the Covid pandemic and its multiple social and economic consequences. What had been until then, for most people, a remote and specialized field of expertise suddenly became the very basis for the government of lives.

The Worlds of Public Health analyzes the moral and political issues at stake in the practice of public health today, including the influence of positivism, the boundaries of disease, conspiracy theories, morality tests, and the challenges posed by the health of migrants and prisoners. This exploration transports readers from South Africa, the country most impacted by the AIDS epidemic, to Ecuador, with the supposedly highest maternal mortality rate in Latin America; from the scientific controversies concerning the so-called worm wars in Kenya to conflicts between doctors and patients around Gulf War syndrome in the United States; from lead poisoning and public housing in France to the Covid-19 pandemic worldwide. Through these case studies, Didier Fassin argues that, ultimately, public health is a politics of life, revealing the different and unequal ways in which life is valued - and either protected or not - in contemporary societies.
Public health erupted into the world's consciousness in early 2020 with the Covid pandemic and its multiple social and economic consequences. What had been until then, for most people, a remote and specialized field of expertise suddenly became the very basis for the government of lives.

The Worlds of Public Health analyzes the moral and political issues at stake in the practice of public health today, including the influence of positivism, the boundaries of disease, conspiracy theories, morality tests, and the challenges posed by the health of migrants and prisoners. This exploration transports readers from South Africa, the country most impacted by the AIDS epidemic, to Ecuador, with the supposedly highest maternal mortality rate in Latin America; from the scientific controversies concerning the so-called worm wars in Kenya to conflicts between doctors and patients around Gulf War syndrome in the United States; from lead poisoning and public housing in France to the Covid-19 pandemic worldwide. Through these case studies, Didier Fassin argues that, ultimately, public health is a politics of life, revealing the different and unequal ways in which life is valued - and either protected or not - in contemporary societies.
Über den Autor
Didier Fassin is Professor at the Collège de France and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and Director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface

The Birth of Public Health

The Truth in Numbers

Epistemic Boundaries

Conspiracy Theories

Ethical Crises

Precarious Exiles

Carceral Ordeals

Readings of the Pandemic

Endnotes

Bibliography
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 272
Inhalt: 272 S.
ISBN-13: 9781509558285
ISBN-10: 1509558284
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Fassin, Didier
Hersteller: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Maße: 152 x 227 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Didier Fassin
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.06.2023
Gewicht: 0,434 kg
preigu-id: 126346928
Über den Autor
Didier Fassin is Professor at the Collège de France and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and Director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface

The Birth of Public Health

The Truth in Numbers

Epistemic Boundaries

Conspiracy Theories

Ethical Crises

Precarious Exiles

Carceral Ordeals

Readings of the Pandemic

Endnotes

Bibliography
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 272
Inhalt: 272 S.
ISBN-13: 9781509558285
ISBN-10: 1509558284
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Fassin, Didier
Hersteller: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Maße: 152 x 227 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Didier Fassin
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.06.2023
Gewicht: 0,434 kg
preigu-id: 126346928
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