Global Health in the Global North
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Global Health in the Global North

Techno-Optimism and the Value of Storytelling for the Future of Health Equity

  1. 180 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Global Health in the Global North

Techno-Optimism and the Value of Storytelling for the Future of Health Equity

About this book

This book investigates how health interventions are imagined into being in high-income countries, drawing on over seven years of fieldwork in the self-described "global health capital" Atlanta to consider the role of storytelling in the construction of global health futures.

The volume highlights the ways in which scientific storytelling is critical to our understanding of how global health futures are constructed. The book examines three value typesā€”epistemic, ethical, and economicā€”central to contemporary global health and three linguistic and communicative phenomenaā€”multimodal poetics, emplotment, and discursive circulationā€”significant to the constitution of these values through storytelling. In spotlighting the Atlanta metropolitan region, home to a number of prominent organizations and figures in the development of global health, the book showcases deeper insights into the future-oriented and techno-optimistic stories global health professionals tell each other, funders, and the public. Black builds on these discussions to suggest ways forward for these stories to be improved to foster greater equity and decolonization and re-imagine the future of global health.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars in linguistic anthropology, medical anthropology, global health, and health humanities.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. Excerpts
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. 1 Introduction
  12. 2 Making Health Global in Atlanta: A History
  13. 3 The Multimodal Poetics of Ethical Values
  14. 4 The Economic Value of Story Circulation
  15. 5 The Emplotment of Epistemic Values
  16. 6 Recruiting Epistemic and Ethical Values for Global Health Audiences
  17. 7 Reimagining the Future of Global Health Equity, and What This Says about Storytelling and Value
  18. Index