The Worlds of Public Health: Anthropological Excursions

by Didier Fassin

Book Overview

Public health erupted into the world's 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.

The Worlds of Public Health analyzes the moral and political issues at stake in the practice of public health today, including the influence of positivism,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509558284
• ISBN13: 9781509558285
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 8.6"