- Profesor: Veronica Gomez-Temesio
Global Health or the global will to implement programs funded by the Global North to sustain the health of people living in the Global South has the power to decide which health issues are to be mapped as international priorities. Building on this statement, the seminar explores what forms of governance on life are instituted in post-colonial spaces by Global Health assemblage of actors.
Developing critical approaches to Global Health requires to situate health and its governance within broader social and political struggles, and to engage with the colonial legacies of global health practices. The seminar will provide students with conceptual and methodological tools for tackling health issues at the intersection of anthropology, gender studies and critical race studies.
Through different case studies, health will be approached as an entry point for questioning the incorporation of inequality from an intersectional perspective: race, class, and gender. Case studies will explore themes such as humanitarian medicine, access to technologies of diagnostics, clinical labor in life-science industries, prison healthcare policies (non-exhaustive). Case studies will be based mainly ¿ although not exclusively ¿ in the African continent.
Teaching will be organized through two different teaching blocks.
First Teaching Block Historical background: From colonial medicine to current Global Health
Second Teaching Block How Global Health programs translate into local contexts
Teaching will be organized through a combination of lectures, discussions of readings, and students' presentations. Regular participation is required.
Several oral presentations (individual and collective) will be required throughout the semester.
Through different case studies, health will be approached as an entry point for questioning the incorporation of inequality from an intersectional perspective: race, class, and gender. Case studies will explore themes such as humanitarian medicine, access to technologies of diagnostics, clinical labor in life-science industries, prison healthcare policies (non-exhaustive). Case studies will be based mainly ¿ although not exclusively ¿ in the African continent.
Teaching will be organized through two different teaching blocks.
First Teaching Block Historical background: From colonial medicine to current Global Health
Second Teaching Block How Global Health programs translate into local contexts
Teaching will be organized through a combination of lectures, discussions of readings, and students' presentations. Regular participation is required.
Several oral presentations (individual and collective) will be required throughout the semester.
Selected key readings:
Biehl, João, and Adriana Petryna, eds. 2013. When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Bridges, Khiara. 2011. Reproducing Race. An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Cooper, Melinda and Catherine Waldby. 2014. Clinical Labor. Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Crenshaw, Kimberle W. 1991. ¿Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color.¿ Stanford Law Review, 43 (6): 1241-1300.
Davis, Dana-Ain. 2019. Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth. New York: NYU Press.
Fassin, Didier. 2007. ¿Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life.¿ Public Culture 19 (3): 499:520.
Livingston, Julie. 2012. Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic. London and Durham: Duke University Press.
Lock Margareth, Nguyen Vinh-Kim. 2010. An Anthropology of Biomedicine. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Moran-Thomas, Amy. 2019. Traveling With Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic. Oakland: University of California Press.
Nguyen, Vinh-Kim. 2010. The Republic of Therapy: Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa's Time of AIDS. Durham: Duke University Press
Owens, Deirdre Cooper. 2017. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
Packard, Randall M. 2016. A History of Global Health. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Petryna, Adriana. 2013. ¿The Right of Recovery.¿ Current Anthropology 54 (7): 67: 76.
Richardson, Eugene T.2020. Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Sharpe, Christina. 2016. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. London and Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
Biehl, João, and Adriana Petryna, eds. 2013. When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Bridges, Khiara. 2011. Reproducing Race. An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Cooper, Melinda and Catherine Waldby. 2014. Clinical Labor. Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Crenshaw, Kimberle W. 1991. ¿Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color.¿ Stanford Law Review, 43 (6): 1241-1300.
Davis, Dana-Ain. 2019. Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth. New York: NYU Press.
Fassin, Didier. 2007. ¿Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life.¿ Public Culture 19 (3): 499:520.
Livingston, Julie. 2012. Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic. London and Durham: Duke University Press.
Lock Margareth, Nguyen Vinh-Kim. 2010. An Anthropology of Biomedicine. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Moran-Thomas, Amy. 2019. Traveling With Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic. Oakland: University of California Press.
Nguyen, Vinh-Kim. 2010. The Republic of Therapy: Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa's Time of AIDS. Durham: Duke University Press
Owens, Deirdre Cooper. 2017. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
Packard, Randall M. 2016. A History of Global Health. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Petryna, Adriana. 2013. ¿The Right of Recovery.¿ Current Anthropology 54 (7): 67: 76.
Richardson, Eugene T.2020. Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Sharpe, Christina. 2016. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. London and Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.