On the coloniality of global public health

TitleOn the coloniality of global public health
Publication TypeJournal Article
AuthorsRichardson, Eugene T.
JournalMedicine Anthropology Theory | An open-access journal in the anthropology of health, illness, and medicine
Volume6
Issue4
Pagination101-118
ISSN2405-691X
Abstract

The continued inordinate demise from communicable pathogens in the global South is not the result of an intractable problem thwarting our best efforts to prevent and cure disease; we have the means. Rather, as an accomplice to contemporary imperialism, public health manages (as a profession) and maintains (as an academic discipline) global health inequity. It does this through ‘bourgeois empiricist’ models of disease causation, which serve protected affluence by uncritically reifying inequitable social relations in the modern/colonial matrix of power and making them appear commonsensical.

URLhttp://www.medanthrotheory.org/read/11563/coloniality-global-public-health
DOI10.17157/mat.6.4.761
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