Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries (Routledge Studies in Public Health)

Hardcover, xxviii+238 pages, NOT ex-library. Blank labels inside the front board. Else interior looks unread, clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Part I Global Health Imaginaries 1 HIV, AIDS and the Global Imaginary / Gerry Kearns [Mapping global AIDS; Interpolation and exceptions; African AIDS; Postcolonial AIDS; New global imaginary]; 2 Temporal and Spatial Imaginaries of Global Health: Tobacco, Non-Communicable Diseases and Modernity / D.Reubi [Temporalities and spatialities of globalisation; Contextualising the Lopez model; Of time & space in the Lopez model; Temporalities and spaces of modernisation]; 3 Exemplary or Exceptional? Production and Dismantling of Global Health in Botswana / Betsey Behr Brada [Botswana's epidemic as an ambivalent site of global health; 'Do all the procedures you can': producing global health; 'Not bad for an African hospital'; 'Anything this sophisticated': global health dismantled; A greener pasture]; 4 Mixing & Fixing: Managing and Imagining the Body in a Global World / Sarah Atkinson [Geographies of medical tourism; Tensions of scarcity & Inter-corporeality]; Part II Global Health, Power and Politics 5 Making Ties Through Making Drugs: Partnerships for Tuberculosis Drug & Vaccine Development / Susan Craddock [Economic & biomedical milieux of malaria and tuberculosis; PDPs and the social economies of drug production; Beyond binaries]; 6 Living Well with Parasitic Worms: A More-than-Human Geography of Global Health / Jamie Lorimer [Worms; Helminth parasitology; Deworming the world; Reworming the world; Global health in a wormy world (Health as a more-than-human achievement; Microbiopolitics; Topologies of health)]; 7 Resistant Bodies, Malaria and the Question of Immunity / Uli Beisel [Bioecologies, resistance & immunity; Multiple immunities of malaria (Visions of vaccination); (Dangerous) wanderlust of an Asian plasmodium falciparum parasite; Negotiating partial immunity: living with malaria; Malaria, global health & immunity/community]; 8 Genealogy of Evidence at the WHO / Nele Jensen [Following narratives of scientific progress; Beginning of a different story: from counting deaths to calculating health; From calculating health to setting policy priorities; From priority-setting to evidence; The WHO: change or die; Assembling the components; Coming full circle: stabilising assemblages, making evidence; End of one story & beginning of another: de- & reassembling EBP]; Part III When Solutions Make Problems 9 More Than One World, More Than One Health: Re-Configuring Inter-Species Health / Stephen Hinchliffe [Common sense and its exclusions; One world-ism; Doing animal health & immunity (Return of configuration; Contract & contagion in chickens; Surveillance for influenza; Keeping pigs safe)]; 10 Needs of the 'Other' Global Health: Case of Remote Air Medical / Paul Jackson [Introducing RAM and rethinking remote geographies; Global health or uneven burdens?; Case of RAM; Supplies & demands: health, care and social reproduction (Health needs and care deficits; Health & social reproduction)]; 11 Eat Your Greens, Buy Some Chips: Contesting Articulations of Food & Food Security in Children's Lives / Jane Battersby [Changing face of food & nutrition insecurity; Problems of global food and nutrition security discourses and policies (Old diagnoses for new diseases; Indicator-led, siloed approaches; An uncritical approach to the role of the private sector); Translating global trends to local realities: South Africa; Three sites of food consumption (School; Journey; Home)]; 12 Structural Violence, Capabilities & the Experiential Politics of Alcohol Regulation / C.Herrick [Alcohol, structural violence, vulnerabilities and capabilities in South Africa; Brief methodological note; Experiencing, mitigating and managing structural violence (Drivers of drinking; Consequences; Unfurling the pathogenic social spiral)]; Index.