Main description:

The phrase 'global health' appears ubiquitously in contemporary medical spheres, from academic research programs to websites of pharmaceutical companies. In its most visible manifestation, global health refers to strategies addressing major epidemics and endemic conditions through philanthropy, and multilateral, private-public partnerships. 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. The contributors argue that not only does the global health enterprise signal a significant departure from the postwar targets and modes of operations typical of international public health, but that new configurations of action have moved global health beyond concerns with infectious diseases and state-based programs.

The book will appeal to academics, students and health professionals interested in new discussions about the transnational circulation of drugs, bugs, therapies, biomedical technologies and people in the context of the "neo-liberal turn" in development practices.
This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3, Good health and well-being. -- .

Contents:

1 Global health and the new world order: introduction - Claire Beaudevin, Jean-Paul Gaudilliere, Christoph Gradmann, Anne M. Lovell, and Laurent Pordie
2 Standardization and localization in tuberculosis control - Nora Engel
3 The not so distant past, tuberculosis and the DOTS challenge - Jean-Paul Gaudilliere, Christoph Gradmann and Andrew McDowell
4 Decolonizing, nationalizing, and globalizing the history of psychiatry: from colonial to cross-cultural psychiatry in Nigeria - Matthew M. Heaton
5 'Clearing the streets': enacting human rights in mental health care in Ghana - Ursula Read
6 You've got the point? Acupuncture and the techno-politics of bodyscape - Wen-Hua Kuo
7 Finding the global in the local: constructing population in the search for disease genes - Steve Sturdy
8 Rare genetic disease, global health and genomics: the case of R337h in Brazil - Sahra Gibbon
9 The World Health Organization's response to Ebola in historical perspective - Nitsan Chorev
10 Epilogue: in search of global health - Didier Fassin
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