Global Health for All : Knowledge, Politics, and Practices.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prologue: A Story with Sixteen Tellers / Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, Claudia Lang, Jean-Paul Gaudillière -- Introduction: Health Universalism and the Health of Others / Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, and Claudia Lang -- Periodization -- A Field and What Else? -- The Game of Scales -- Standardization -- What Is Neoliberal about Global Health? -- Multi-Scalar Methodologies -- 1. Localization in the Global / Andrew McDowell, Lucile Ruault, Olivia Fiorilli, and Laurent Pordié -- Grounding Localization -- The Local as Site of Innovation -- SkyCare and the Virtual Global -- Community: The Discursive Local -- The Local as Hub of Global Circulations -- Conclusion -- 2. Metrics for Development / Anne M. Lovell, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Claudia Lang, and Claire Beaudevin -- Global Burden of Disease, Season 1 (GBD 1): The World Bank's Tool for Prioritizing Health Investments -- Putting GBD 1 to Use: The Real but Problematic "Economization" of National Investments in Health -- Global Burden of Disease, Season 2 (GBD 2): Limitations and Legitimation -- Challenging GBD 2 -- Crises of Ownership and Counting -- Conclusion -- 3. Triage beyond the Clinic / Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, and Claire Beaudevin -- Political Triage and Its Economic Alternative: The Primary Health Care Strategy and Its Eclipse -- Strategy in Practice: The Essential Drugs List and the Rise of the "Selective" Primary Health Care -- The 1990s and Its Aftermath: Performance-Based Triage and the World Bank -- Triage toward Disease Control: Tuberculosis and "Verticalization" in Global Health -- Comprehensive Primary Health Care, Medical Genetics, and Task Shifting in Oman -- Distributed Political Triage in Kerala -- Conclusion.
4. Markets, Medicines, and Health Globalization / Caroline Meier zu Biesen, Laurent Pordié, Jessica Pourraz, and Jean-Paul Gaudillière -- Toward a Global Market: Branded Artemisinin Drugs Reaching Tanzania -- Rethinking Medicine Making: The Local Production of Generic Antimalarials in Ghana -- The Reformulation Regime: Industrial Ayurveda Goes Global -- Transactions at the Interstices: The Licit and Illicit Circulation of Drugs in Cambodia -- Conclusion -- 5. Tech for All / Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, Mandy Geise, Sameea Ahmed Hassim, and Vegard Traavik Sture -- The Launching of a Depression Technopack -- A Sliding Scale: TB -- GeneXpert: Of Genes and Experts -- Technopacking Genomics, Mestizaje, and Diabetes in Mexico -- Cuba's Prenatal Screening Technopack -- Conclusion -- 6. Persistent Hospitals / Claire Beaudevin, Fanny Chabrol, and Claudia Lang -- Crafting Medical Genetics in an Omani Hospital -- Providing Multidrug-Resistant Treatment in a Tuberculosis Hospital in Tanzania -- The Mental Hospital and Community Mental Health in India -- Conclusion -- 7. Provincializing the WHO / Christoph Gradmann, Olivia Fiorilli, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Caroline Meier zu Biesen, Lucile Ruault, and Simeng Wang -- Tuberculosis, the Making of DOTS, and the Decline of Primary Health Care -- The WHO and the World Bank: Revisiting the "Takeover -- The WHO and the Missed Opportunity for a Global Agenda on Human Genetics, 1980s-2000s -- Transregional Health Encounters: Indian Ayurveda, African Markets, and the WHO's Guiding Principles -- A Road to Africa: China and Global Health -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Global Health for All-COVID-19 and Beyond / Claudia Lang, Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, and Jean-Paul Gaudillière -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index.
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