In an era where debates about public health research, policy, and practice are central to the wider socio-political discourse, this invaluable volume brings together key themes from the last 15 years of critical scholarship in and of public health.
The book provides both empirical examples and the conceptual tools for rethinking the role of public health in society, challenging the familiar biomedicalized and individualized discourse that has dominated throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Divided into nine chapters, it covers key topics such as complex systems of health determinants, evidence-making in public health, and the role of corporate actors and philanthropists. Reframing the field through local and global political lenses, New Directions in Critical Public Health: Health in Turbulent Times also integrates interdisciplinary perspectives to provide a truly holistic overview of this rapidly evolving area.
It will interest not only students and scholars of Public Health and the Health Sciences more widely, but also those in the fields of Sociology, Political and Development Studies, Economics.
In an era where debates about public health research, policy, and practice are central to the wider socio-political discourse, this invaluable volume brings together key themes from the last 15 years of critical scholarship in and of public health.
Introduction. 1.Political economy of knowledge production. 2.Making
evidence: complexity, trials and epistemic justice. 3.Public health,
medicalization, and biomedicalization. 4.Keeping the pressure on: critical
public health and the social determinants of health inequities. 5.Beyond
behaviour: social practices and more than human health. 6.Beyond the state:
the health perils of neoliberal globalization. 7.Global health governance,
the state, and healthy social movement activism. 8.Conclusion: we are all now
(critical) political economists.
Lindsay McLaren is Professor of Population & Public Health at the University of Calgary, Canada; Research Associate at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives; and co-Editor of Journal of Critical Public Health.
Judith Green is Professor of Sociology in the Centre for Cultures & Environments of Health and the Department of Social & Political Sciences, Philosophy & Anthropology, University of Exeter, UK, and co-Editor of Journal of Critical Public Health.
Ronald Labonté is Professor Emeritus in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Canada; a member of the global People's Health Movement's Steering Council; and co-Editor-in-Chief of Globalization and Health.
