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The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England
A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global inequities. Intro -- Contents -- Foreword: Gramsci, but More Pragmatic, by Paul Farmer -- Preface -- Part...
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A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global inequities. Intro -- Contents -- Foreword: Gramsci, but More Pragmatic, by Paul Farmer -- Preface -- Part I: Carnivalization (карнавализация) -- Introduction: Pr [Global Health Equity | Coloniality] -- Redescription 1: Colonizer, Interrupted (Flash Fiction) -- Redescription 2: The Allegory of the Warren (Platonic Dialogues) -- Redescription 3: The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of Lake Geneva (Nacirema Ethnography) -- Redescription 4: WHO's Semiosis (Semiotics) -- Redescription 5: The Ebola Suspect's Dilemma (Call and Response) -- Redescription 6: Not-So-Big Data and Immodest Causal Inference (Symbolic Reparations) -- Redescription 7: Ebola Vaccines and the Ideal Speech Situation (Border Gnosis) -- Redescription 8: The Race-PrEP Study (Counterhegemonic Modeling) -- Pre-Appendices -- Conclusion: The Epistemic Reformation -- Part II: Use Your Illusion -- Afterword: Pandemicity, COVID-19, and the Limits of Public Health "Science" -- Notes -- Index.
