Pandemic policies have been the focus of fierce lobbying competition by different social and economic interests. In Viral Lobbying a team of expert authors from across the social and natural sciences analyse patterns in and implications of this 'viral lobbying'. Based on elite s…
"Argues that developments in biomedicine in China should be at the center of our understanding of biomedicine, not at the periphery"--
Introduction: China and the globalization of biomedicine / David Luesink -- Reflections on the modernity of sanitation policies in the late Qing Dynasty / Yu Xinzhong -- Discovering diseases : research on the globalization of medical knowledge in nineteenth-century China / Xi Ga…
"Argues that developments in biomedicine in China should be at the center of our understanding of biomedicine, not at the periphery"--
"Argues that developments in biomedicine in China should be at the center of our understanding of biomedicine, not at the periphery"--
"What do we mean when we talk about rights in relation to health? Where does the language of health rights come from, and what are the implications of using such a discourse? During the last 20 years there have been an increasing number of initiatives and efforts for instance in…
La 4e de couverture indique : "Le thème de la mondialisation occupe une place croissante dans les débats publics. Cet ouvrage traite des dimensions les moins visibles du phénomène : la mondialisation des risques sanitaires et environnementaux. Qu'il s'agisse de catastrophes maje…
This book explores the role of health in sustainable agricultural development into the early decades of the twenty-first century. It focuses on emerging agricultural research priorities in developed and developing economies in response to the demands placed on their agricultural…
This book explores the role of health in sustainable agricultural development into the early decades of the twenty-first century. It focuses on emerging agricultural research priorities in developed and developing economies in response to the demands placed on their agricultural…
This is the first major study of a significant post within the British government. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources and interviews with senior health professionals and politicians, this book positions the Chief Medical Officer as one of the most influential individual…
"The Health of Others trains a critical lens on global health to share the stories that global health's practices and logics tell about 20th and 21st century configurations of science and power. An ethnography on multiple scales, the book focuses on global health's key epistemic…
"The Health of Others trains a critical lens on global health to share the stories that global health's practices and logics tell about 20th and 21st century configurations of science and power. An ethnography on multiple scales, the book focuses on global health's key epistemic…
