Epidemic Illusions - On the Coloniality of Global Public Health (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	MIT Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2020
Authors:	Eugene T Richardson • Paul Farmer
Dimensions:	203 x 136 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-0-262-04560-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Epidemiology & medical statistics
LSN:	0-262-04560-5
Barcode:	9780262045605

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