Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health by Richardson, Eugene T.

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...
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Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health by Richardson, Eugene T.

Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health

$94.38

Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health

$94.38
Author: Eugene T. Richardson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Deploying a range of rhetorical tools and drawing on his clinical work in a variety of epidemics, including Ebola in West Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo, leishmania in the Sudan, HIV/TB in southern Africa, diphtheria in Bangladesh, and SARS-CoV-2 in the United States, Richardson concludes that the biggest epidemic we currently face is an epidemic of illusions--one that is propagated by the coloniality of knowledge production.

Author: Eugene T. Richardson
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 12/22/2020
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780262045605

About the Author
Eugene T. Richardson, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Visiting Faculty at the University of Global Health Equity in Butaro, Rwanda, and Chair of the Lancet Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice.

Paul Farmer, University Professor at Harvard and cofounder of Partners In Health, is author of Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History.

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