Re-imagining global health through social medicine. Issue 10 (3rd October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Adams, Vincanne; Behague, Dominique; Caduff, Carlo; Löwy, Ilana; Ortega, Francisco
• Is Part Of: Global public health. Volume 14:Issue 10(2019)
• Page Start: 1383
• Page End: 1400
• Publication Date: 2019-10-03
• Subjects: Social medicine -- the state -- philanthrocapitalism -- Anthropocene -- geopolitics; Public health -- Periodicals; 362.105
• DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2019.1587639
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-1692

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The conceptual and practical work done by social medicine and global health have often overlapped. In this paper, we argue that new efforts to apprehend 'the social' in social medicine offer important insights to global health along five lines of critical analysis: (1) reconfigurations of the state and new forms of political activism, (2) philanthrocapitalism and the economisation of life, (3) The economy of attention, (4) anthropogenic climate change, and (5) the geopolitics of North and South.