The Worlds of Public Health: Anthropological Excursions, Fassin 9781509558278^+

The Worlds of Public Health\n\nAnthropological Excursions\n\nDidier Fassin (Author)\n\n9781509558278, Polity Press\n\nHardback, published 30 June 2023\n\n272 pages\n23.1 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm, 0.544 kg\n\n\u201CDidier Fassin reinvents the image and language of public health through a daring \u2018shift of gaze.\u2019 These compelling lectures offer radical new perspectives on what it means to live under perpetual threat in the 21st century.\u201D\nRichard Horton, The Lancet\n\n\u201CTrespassing disciplinary boundaries and challenging methodological detachment, Didier Fassin\u2019s timely excursion is a master class in \u2018intellectual dishabituation.\u2019 Set against a ravaging Covid pandemic, Fassin\u2019s latest tour de force urges us to rethink the biopolitical and the ethical from the ground up. A much-needed compass for our imperiled present.\u201D\nJo\u00E3o Biehl, Princeton University\n\nPublic health erupted into the world\u2019s consciousness in early 2020 with the Covid pandem]