Reimagining global health [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction / / Paul Farmer ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779838103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013
• ISBN: 0-520-27199-8; 0-520-95463-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Collana: California series in public anthropology ; ; v. 26
• Altri autori (Persone): FarmerPaul <1959-2022.>
• Disciplina: 362.1
• Soggetti: World health; Health services accessibility
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: A Biosocial Approach to Global Health -- 2. Unpacking Global Health: Theory and Critique -- 3. Colonial Medicine and Its Legacies -- 4. Health for All? Competing Theories and Geopolitics -- 5. Redefining the Possible: The Global AIDS Response -- 6. Building an Effective Rural Health Delivery Model in Haiti and Rwanda -- 7. Scaling Up Effective Delivery Models Worldwide -- 8. The Unique Challenges of Mental Health and MDRTB: Critical Perspectives on Metrics of Disease -- 9. Values and Global Health -- 10. Taking Stock of Foreign Aid -- 11. Global Health Priorities for the Early Twenty-First Century -- 12. A Movement for Global Health Equity? A Closing Reflection -- Appendix: Declaration of Alma-Ata -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, Reimagining Global Health provides an original, compelling introduction to the field of global health. Drawn from a Harvard course developed by their student Matthew Basilico, this work provides an accessible and engaging framework for the study of global health. Insisting on an approach that is historically deep and geographically broad, the authors underline the importance of a transdisciplinary approach, and offer a highly readable ; distillation of several historical and ethnographic perspectives of contemporary global health problems.The case studies presented throughout Reimagining Global Health bring together ethnographic, theoretical, and historical perspectives into a wholly new and exciting investigation of global health. The interdisciplinary approach outlined in this text should prove useful not only in schools of public health, nursing, and medicine, but also in undergraduate and graduate classes in anthropology, sociology, political economy, and history, among others"--Provided by publisher.

Refining Expertise : How Responsible Engineers Subvert Environmental Justice Challenges / / Gwen Ottinger

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786150903321
• Autore: Ottinger Gwen
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 0-8147-6239-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.7384
• Soggetti: Petroleum industry and trade - United States; Social responsibility of business - United States; Environmental responsibility - United States; Petroleum refineries - Environmental aspects - Louisiana - New Sarpy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-217) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. The Battlefront -- 2. Dangerous Stories -- 3. Noisome Neighbors -- 4. From Deliberation to Dialogue -- 5. Responsible Refiners -- 6. Passive Revolution and Resistance -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: Winner of the 2015 Rachel Carson Prize presented by the Society for Social Studies of Science Residents of a small Louisiana town were sure that the oil refinery next door was making them sick. As part of a ; campaign demanding relocation away from the refinery, they collected scientific data to prove it. Their campaign ended with a settlement agreement that addressed many of their grievances—but not concerns about their health. Yet, instead of continuing to collect data, residents began to let refinery scientists' assertions that their operations did not harm them stand without challenge. What makes a community move so suddenly from actively challenging to apparently accepting experts' authority? Refining Expertise argues that the answer lies in the way that refinery scientists and engineers defined themselves as experts. Rather than claiming to be infallible, they began to portray themselves as responsible—committed to operating safely and to contributing to the well-being of the community. The volume shows that by grounding their claims to responsibility in influential ideas from the larger culture about what makes good citizens, nice communities, and moral companies, refinery scientists made it much harder for residents to challenge their expertise and thus re-established their authority over scientific questions related to the refinery's health and environmental effects. Gwen Ottinger here shows how industrial facilities' current approaches to dealing with concerned communities—approaches which leave much room for negotiation while shielding industry's environmental and health claims from critique—effectively undermine not only individual grassroots campaigns but also environmental justice activism and far-reaching efforts to democratize science. This work drives home the need for both activists and politically engaged scholars to reconfigure their own activities in response, in order to advance community health and robust scientific knowledge about it.