Re-imagining global health through social medicine
Global Public Health
Short Title:
Global Public Health
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
2019/03/19/
Pages:
1 - 18
Sources ID:
97711
Collection:
Himalayan and Tibetan Medicine
Visibility:
Public (group default)
Abstract:
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The conceptual and practical work done by social medicine and global health have often overlapped. In this paper, we argue that new efforts to apprehend 'the social' in social medicine offer important insights to global health along five lines of critical analysis: (1) reconfigurations of the state and new forms of political activism, (2) philanthrocapitalism and the economisation of life, (3) The economy of attention, (4) anthropogenic climate change, and (5) the geopolitics of North and South.;