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

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-190) and index

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Epidemic illusions

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Eugene T. Richardson ; foreword by Paul Farmer

on the coloniality of global public health

"In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson, a physician and an anthropologist, contends that public health practices--from epidemiological modeling and outbreak containment to Big Data and causal inference--play an essential role in perpetuating a range of global inequities. Drawing on postcolonial theory, medical anthropology, and critical science studies, Richardson demonstrates the ways in which the flagship discipline of epidemiology has been shaped by the colonial, racist, and patriarchal system that had its inception in 1492" --, Provided by publisher

Foreword: Gramsci, but more pragmatic / Paul Farmer -- Preface -- Carnivalization. Introduction: 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 ethnography) -- 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"