Global Health in the Global North Techno-Optimism and the Value of Storytelling for the Future of Health Equity【電子書籍】[ Steven P. Black ]

＜p＞This book investigates how health interventions are imagined into being in high-income countries, drawing on over seven years of fieldwork in the self-described “global health capital” Atlanta to consider the role of storytelling in the construction of global health futures.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The volume highlights the ways in which scientific storytelling is critical to our understanding of how global health futures are constructed. The book examines three value typesーepistemic, ethical, and economicーcentral to contemporary global health and three linguistic and communicative phenomenaーmultimodal poetics, emplotment, and discursive circulationーsignificant to the constitution of these values through storytelling. In spotlighting the Atlanta metropolitan region, home to a number of prominent organizations and figures in the development of global health, the book showcases deeper insights into the future-oriented and techno-optimistic stories global health professionals tell each other, funders, ．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る