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This book provides a textual analysis of the implementation of the
UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in health care. Using
sexual health as a case study, the authors apply Foucault's notions
of biopower and biopolitics to discuss the power struggle between
local needs and wants and universal ambitions embedded in the SDG
ideology. Reproductive and sexual health are settings where health
policy, religious and cultural norms, and gender policy meet
personal and moral standards. As such, tensions, dilemmas, and
conflicts are powerfully demonstrated in this interdisciplinary
field of public health. Tensions, dilemmas and conflicts are
particularly visible in reproductive and sexual health settings,
where health policy meets personal or moral standards, gender
policy, and religious and cultural norms. This book will be
valuable supplementary material for graduate students and academics
wishing to enhance their knowledge in the fields of global health,
sexual health, reproductive health and rights, and cultural
studies. The book will also be of interest to professionals and
students within the disciplines of medical sociology, medical
anthropology, sustainability studies, gender and sexuality studies,
and public health.
The COVID-19 crisis has transformed the highly specialized issue of
what constitutes reliable medical evidence into a topic of public
concern and debate. This book interrogates the assumption that
evidence means the same thing to different constituencies and in
different contexts. Rather than treating various practices of
knowledge as rational or irrational in purely scientific terms, it
explains the controversies surrounding COVID-19 by drawing on a
theoretical framework that recognizes different types of
rationality, and hence plural conceptualizations of evidence.
Debates within and beyond the medical establishment on the efficacy
of measures such as mandatory face masks are examined in detail, as
are various degrees of hesitancy towards vaccines. The authors
demonstrate that it is ultimately through narratives that knowledge
about medical and other phenomena is communicated to others, enters
the public space, and provokes discussion and disagreements. This
title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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