Epidemic illusions : on the coloniality of global public health / Eugene T. Richardson ; foreword by Paul Farmer
By: Richardson, Eugene T [author].
Contributor(s): Farmer, Paul [author of foreword] | Ohio Library and Information Network.
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, ©2020Description: 193 p.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262045605.Subject(s): Epidemiology -- Social aspects | World health -- Social aspects | Public health | Equality -- Health aspects | Social medicine | Discrimination in medical care | Epidemiology | Global Health | Public Health | Social Medicine | Social Discrimination | MEDICAL / Public Health | POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General | MEDICAL / EpidemiologyGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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