Contenu du livre

Global Health for All. Knowledge, Politics and Practices porte un regard critique sur la santé mondiale en analysant certaines de ses pratiques épistémiques et interventionnelles clés : la localisation, la mesure, le triage, les marchés, la technologie, les soins, la réglementation… Ouvrage atypique collectivement écrit par un groupe de recherche international d’anthropologues et d’historien×nes, Global Health for All souligne ce que ces pratiques de la santé mondiale disent des configurations de la science et du pouvoir aux 20e et 21e siècles.

L’ouvrage aborde spécifiquement les rouages des institutions internationales et philanthropiques, les méthodes financiarisées d'évaluation de la santé, la relation entre la santé et le discours sur le développement, et l'établissement des priorités en matière de santé. Pour ce faire, ses analyses sont fondées sur des archives et sur une ethnographie à multiples échelles menée de manière itinérante, s'intéressant à la fois aux centres décisionnels, sites d’interventions et espaces intermédiaires de la santé mondiale — aussi bien à la Banque mondiale qu’aux bureaucraties et systèmes de santé nationaux, aussi bien à l’OMS qu’aux institutions de recherche.  Pour examiner ce qui se passe lorsque logiques, circulations et acteurs mondialisés travaillent à imaginer et gérer la santé, l’ouvrage passe par des lieux conventionnels (Genève, Washington DC, Inde et Afrique de l'Est) comme non conventionnels de la santé mondiale (Mexique, Oman, Stockholm, Chypre, Cuba et Cambodge).

Contributrices et contributeurs

Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, Claudia Lang, Olivia Fiorilli, Lucile Ruault, Anne M. Lovell, Caroline Meier zu Biesen, Jessica Pourraz, Vegard Traavik Sture, Mandy Geise, Sameea Ahmed Hassim, Fanny Chabrol, Christoph Gradmann, Laurent Pordié, Simeng Wang

Table des matières

Prologue: A Story with Sixteen Tellers
Introduction: Health Universalism and the Health of Others
Chapter 1: Localization in the Global
Chapter 2: Metrics for Development
Chapter 3: Triage Beyond the Clinic
Chapter 4: Markets, Medicines, and Health Globalization
Chapter 5: Tech for All
Chapter 6: Persistent Hospitals
Chapter 7: Provincializing the WHO
Epilogue: The Health of Others, Covid-19 and Beyond
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index

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Reviews

"This is a deeply thoughtful and brilliantly argued book that cuts across stale debates to offer a new framework for conceptualizing health in a globalized world. Its compelling analysis is both important and urgent—as COVID-19 becomes a pivotal moment for rethinking approaches to health, it is crucial that new knowledge and interventions be guided by conceptual and methodological imperatives such as those offered in Global Health for All."
—Manjari Mahajan, Associate Professor of International Affairs & Starr Professor and Co-Director of the India China Institute, The New School

"This fantastic book paints an ambitious and sophisticated historical and ethnographic tableau of the global health field and the globalization of health during the last forty years or so. Articulated around a series of innovative themes, from political/economic triage to persistent hospitals to provincializing the WHO, the book is a must-read for anyone curious about the transformation of international health and biomedicine at the turn of the twentieth century."
—David Reubi, co-editor of Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries

"Drawing on multi-scalar, multi-sited, and multi-disciplinary research, Global Health for All challenges classic understandings of periodization of structures of international health versus a burgeoning global health movement to rethink the very foundations of what has emerged as practices aspiring toward "health universalism" in the twenty-first century.  This remarkable book is based on collaborative and team-based studies of the changing practices of tuberculosis treatment, of depression and global mental health, of the global marketing of alternative or traditional pharmaceuticals outside the boundaries of global health, and of local sites of medical genetics and genetic technologies by anthropologists and ethnographers, sociologists, and historians working in sites as diverse as the WHO and World Bank archives and field sites in India, Tanzania, Ghana, Senegal, and Oman.  Drawn together and collaboratively authored, this text provides the most innovative, deeply scholarly, and wonderfully theorized examination of what constitutes "global health."  While the term emerged in the 1990's, this book convincingly rejects any notions of the singularity of a new "field," arguing for the diversity of "health globalization arenas," of the circulations of concepts, techniques, peoples and goods across time and space, requiring deep analyses of practices aimed at producing standardization based in universal metrics, of efforts to model and 'bring to scale,' and of the role of complex ideologies and practices linking global health to economization, marketization, and neoliberalism.  The range of fascinating case studies, the scope of ideas, and the provocation for rethinking and new research is simply stunning.  It is a book to be pondered, contested, and taught."
—Byron Good, co-editor of A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities