Epidemic illusions on the coloniality of global public health
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
The MIT Press
2020
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| Collection: | MIT Press eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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 |
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| ISBN: | 0262362635 9780262362634 9780262365185 0262365189 |