Epidemic Illusions

On the Coloniality of Global Public Health

Epidemic Illusions
Paul Farmer, Eugene T Richardson
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22 Dec 2020 US
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9780262045605
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In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson makes a provocative claim- that public health science manages and maintains global health inequity. Richardson, a physician and and anthropologist, examines the conventional public health approach to epidemiology through the lens of a participant-observer, identifying a dogmatic commitment to the quantitative paradigm. This paradigm, he argues, plays a role in causing and perpetrating public health crises. The mechanisms of public health science--and epidemiology in particular--that set public health agendas and claim a monopoly on truth stem from a colonial, racist, and patriarchal system that had its inception in 1492.
Eugene T. Richardson, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Visiting Faculty at the University of Global Health Equity in Butaro, Rwanda. Paul Farmer, cofounder of Partners in Health, is author of To Repair the World.
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ISBN-13: 9780262045605
Published: 22 Dec 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: MIT Press
Publisher: MIT Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 137mm
Pages: 176

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