Global Health and the New World Order: Historical and Anthropological Approaches to a Changing Regime of Governance
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Global Health and the New World Order: Historical and Anthropological Approaches to a Changing Regime of Governance
By (Author) Jean-Paul Gaudillire
Edited by Claire Beaudevin
Edited by Christoph Gradmann
Edited by Anne M. Lovell
Edited by Laurent Pordi
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
9th November 2020
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Human biology
Anthropology
International institutions
362.1
Physical Properties
Hardback
248
Width 138mm, Height 216mm, Spine 16mm
458g
Description
What does global health stem from, when is it born and how does it relate to the contemporary world order In this book, historians and anthropologists tackle these questions by exploring the transnational circulation of drugs, bugs, therapies, biomedical technologies and people in the context of the "neo-liberal turn" in development practices. -- .
Author Bio
Jean-Paul Gaudillire is historian of science and senior researcher at the French National Institute for Medical Research and coordinator of the European Research Council project From international to global: Knowledge, disease and the post-war government of health
Claire Beaudevin is anthropologist and researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research
Christoph Gradmann is historian and Professor at the University of Oslo for the Department of Community Medicine and Global Health
Anne Lovell is anthropologist and senior researcher (emeritus) at the French National Institute for Medical Research
Laurent Pordi is anthropologist and researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research
