Posthumanism and public health. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Simon Cohn, Rebecca Lynch.
• Editors: Cohn, Simon; (Research fellow), Lynch, Rebecca
• Contents: Introduction – Posthuman perspectives: relevance for a global public health Simon Cohn and Rebecca Lynch 1. On difference and doubt as tools for critical engagement with public health Catherine M. Will 2. Posthumanist critique and human health: how nonhumans (could) figure in public health research Carrie Friese and Nathalie Nuyts 3. Who or what is ‘the public’ in critical public health? Reflections on posthumanism and anthropological engagements with One Health Melanie J. Rock 4. Enacting toxicity: epidemiology and the study of air pollution for public health Emma Garnett 5. The injecting ‘event’: harm reduction beyond the human Fay Dennis 6. Biopolitical precarity in the permeable body: the social lives of people, viruses and their medicines Elizabeth Mills 7. Beyond the person: the construction and transformation of blood as a resource Rebecca Lynch and Simon Cohn 8. Technologies of the self in public health: insights from public deliberations on cognitive and behavioural enhancement P. Lehoux, B. Williams-Jones, D. Grimard and S. Proulx 9. Commentary: Pigs in public health Mette N. Svendsen
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 362.101; Public health -- Philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351591294
• Related ISBNs: 9781351591300; 9781351591287; 9781315102184
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