Posthumanism and Public Health

ISBN-13: 9780367264871 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 112 str.

Simon Cohn; Rebecca Lynch

Opis

Contributions draw on arguments that humans should not always be accorded an exceptional status in accounts of social and cultural life. It was originally published as a special issue of Critical Public Health.

Spis treści

Introduction – Posthuman perspectives: relevance for a global public health  1. On difference and doubt as tools for critical engagement with public health  2. Posthumanist critique and human health: how nonhumans (could) figure in public health research  3. Who or what is ‘the public’ in critical public health? Reflections on posthumanism and anthropological engagements with One Health  4. Enacting toxicity: epidemiology and the study of air pollution for public health  5. The injecting ‘event’: harm reduction beyond the human  6. Biopolitical precarity in the permeable body: the social lives of people, viruses and their medicines  7. Beyond the person: the construction and transformation of blood as a resource  8. Technologies of the self in public health: insights from public deliberations on cognitive and behavioural enhancement  9. Commentary: Pigs in public health

O autorze

Simon Cohn is Professor in Medical Anthropology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK. Drawing increasingly on science studies and practice theory, his research has focused on issues related to diagnosis, contested conditions and chronic illness in the UK and other high-income societies.

Rebecca Lynch is a Research Fellow in Medical Anthropology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK. Her research is interested in constructions of the body, health and illness particularly in relation to morality, values and categorisation. She has undertaken ethnographic fieldwork in Trinidad and research projects in the UK.