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Book | Global Health for All. Knowledge, Politics, and Practices

Edited by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, Claire Beaudevin
Contributions by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, Claudia Lang, Olivia Fiorilli, Lucile Ruault, Anne M. Lovell, Caroline Meier zu Biesen, Jessica Pourraz, Vegard Traavik Sture, Mandy Geise, Sameea Ahmed Hassim, Fanny Chabrol, Christoph Gradmann, Laurent Pordié, Simeng Wang
Rutgers University Press, 2022

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Book | Global health and the new world order. Historical and anthropological approaches to a changing regime of governance

Edited by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Claire Beaudevin, Christoph Gradmann, Anne M. Lovell and Laurent Pordié
Manchester University Press, 2020

9781526149671

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Symposium 'Making medicine in austere times'

Symposium 'Making medicine in austere times'

Joint MAS-Globhealth Symposium, Bern, Switzerland, June 11-13, 2019

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Medical assemblages, scales, structure

Joint workshop Freie Universität Berlin/Globhealth, Berlin, June 8th, 2018

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From international public health to global health

The GLOBHEALTH project aims at a socio-historical study of the transition between the two regimes of knowledge and action, which have characterized the government of health after World War II: the regime of international public health, dominating during the first decades of the postwar era, which was centered on eradication policies, nation-states and international UN organizations; the present regime of global health, which emerged in the 1980s and is centered on risk management and chronic diseases, market-driven regulations, and private-public alliances.

The project seeks to understand this transition in terms of globalization processes, looking at the making of knowledge, the production and commercialization of health goods, the implementation of public health programs, and routine medical work. It focuses on four fields of investigations: tuberculosis, mental health, traditional medicine and medical genetics in order to grasp how categories, standardized treatment regimens, industrial products, management tools or specific specialties have become elements in our present global government of health.

The project associates historical and anthropological investigations of practices in both international and local sites with strong interests in the changing roles of WHO and in the developments taking place in non-Western countries, India and East Africa in the first place.