The Worlds of Public Health by Didier Fassin - 9781509558278

The Worlds of Public HealthAnthropological Excursions\nAuthor(s): Didier Fassin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Polity Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509558278, 978-1509558278\nSynopsis\nPublic health erupted into the worlds consciousness in early 2020 with the Covid pandemic and its multiple social and economic consequences. What had been until then, for most people, a remote and specialized field of expertise suddenly became the very basis for the government of lives.\n\n The Worlds of Public Healthanalyzes the moral and political issues at stake in the practice of public health today, including the influence of positivism, the boundaries of disease, conspiracy theories, morality tests, and the challenges posed by the health of migrants and prisoners. This exploration transports readers from South Africa, the country most impacted by the AIDS epidemic, to Ecuador, with the supposedly highest maternal mortality rate in Latin America; from the scientific con.