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Global Health for All

Knowledge, Politics, and Practices
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2022

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Global Health for All trains a critical lens on global health to share the stories that global health’s practices and logics tell about 20th and 21st century configurations of science and power. An ethnography on multiple scales, the book focuses on global health’s key epistemic and therapeutic practices like localization, measurement, triage, markets, technology, care, and regulation. Its roving approach traverses policy centers, sites of intervention, and innumerable spaces in between to consider what happens when globalized logics, circulations, and actors work to imagine, modify, and manage health. By resting in these in-between places, Global Health for All simultaneously examines global health as a coherent system and as a dynamic, unpredictable collection of modular parts.

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JEAN-PAUL GAUDILLIÈRE is a distinguished historian of science and senior researcher at the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) in France. From 2009 to 2019, he was the director of Europe's most prominent institute for the social study of medicine, CERMES3. He is the author of nine English-language edited volumes on the history of medicine and the life sciences. 

ANDREW MCDOWELL is an assistant professor of anthropology at Tulane University. McDowell is one of the leading social science experts on tuberculosis in India and has published in venues spanning from The Lancet to Medical Anthropology Quarterly.

CLAUDIA LANG is the Heisenberg Associate Professor of anthropology at the University of Leipzig. She is the author of Depression in Karala: Ayurveda and Mental Health Care in 21st-Century India and a co-editor with William Sax of The Movement for Global Mental Health: Critical Views from South and Southeast Asia

CLAIRE BEAUDEVIN is a medical anthropologist and a researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France. She is the co-editor of Global Health and the New World Order: Historical and Anthropological Approaches to a Changing Regime of Governance. 

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"[Makes] global health comprehensible through excellent examples of projects and policies to illustrate each of the points."

— Family Medicine

"This fantastic book paints an ambitious and sophisticated historical and ethnographic tableau of the global health field and the globalization of health during the last forty years or so. Articulated around a series of innovative themes, from political/economic triage to persistent hospitals to provincializing the WHO, the book is a must-read for anyone curious about the transformation of international health and biomedicine at the turn of the twentieth century."
— David Reubi, co-editor of Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries

"This is a deeply thoughtful and brilliantly argued book that cuts across stale debates to offer a new framework for conceptualizing health in a globalized world. Its compelling analysis is both important and urgent—as COVID-19 becomes a pivotal moment for rethinking approaches to health, it is crucial that new knowledge and interventions be guided by conceptual and methodological imperatives such as those offered in Global Health for All."
— Manjari Mahajan, Associate Professor of International Affairs & Starr Professor and Co-Director of the India China In

"Global Health for All challenges classic understandings of periodization of structures of international health versus a burgeoning global health movement to rethink the very foundations of what has emerged as practices aspiring toward 'health universalism' in the twenty-first century. The range of fascinating case studies, the scope of ideas, and the provocation for rethinking and new research is simply stunning. It is a book to be pondered, contested, and taught."
— Byron Good, co-editor of A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities

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