Epidemic illusions : on the coloniality of global public health

Epidemic illusions : on the coloniality of global public health / Eugene T. Richardson ; foreword by Paul Farmer.

"An eclectic series of "decolonizing heuristics" based on Eugene Richardson's experiences in epidemic containment in the Sudan, West Africa, South Africa, and among the Rohingya"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Richardson, Eugene T. (Author)
Other Authors: Farmer, Paul, 1959-2022 (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Epidemiology > Social aspects.
World health > Social aspects.
Equality > Health aspects.
Social medicine.
Discrimination in medical care.
Epidemics.
World health.
Anthropology.
Africa.
Table of Contents:
  • Carnivalization
  • Pr [Global health equity/Coloniality]
  • Colonizer, interrupted (Flash fiction)
  • The allegory of the warren (Platonic dialogues)
  • The pacification of the primitive tribes of Lake Geneva (Nacirema eghnography)
  • WHO's semiosis (Semiotics)
  • The ebola suspect's dilemma (Call and response)
  • Not-so-big data and immodest causal inference (Symbolic reparations)
  • Ebola vaccines and the ideal speech situation (Border gnosis)
  • The race-PrEP study (Counterhegemonic modeling)
  • Pre-appendices
  • Conclusion: The epistemic reformation
  • Use your illusion
  • Afterword: Pandemicity, COVID-19, and the limits of public health "science."

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