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02534aam a2200349 i 4500 001 A464365E969D11EBB000DAFF5DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210406010037 008 200412s2020 mauaf b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0262045605 020 $a 9780262045605 035 $a (OCoLC)1150005924 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d TOH $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d GUA $d OCLCO $d MNN $d SILO 050 4 $a RA441 R53 2020 100 1 $a Richardson, Eugene T. $e author. 245 10 $a Epidemic illusions : $b on the coloniality of global public health / $c Eugene T. Richardson ; foreword by Paul Farmer. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b The MIT Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xxiv, 193 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-190) and index. 505 0 $a Gramsci, but more pragmatic / Paul Farmer -- Carnivalization -- Pr [Global health equity | Coloniality] -- Colonizer, interrupted (flash fiction) -- The allegory of the warren (platonic dialogues) -- The pacification of the primitive tribes of Lake Geneva (Nacirema ethnography) -- WHO's semiosis (semiotics) -- The ebola suspect's dilemma (call and response) -- Not-so-big data and immodest causal inference (symbolic reparations) -- Ebola vaccines and the ideal speech situation (border gnosis) -- The race-PrEP study (counterhegemonic modeling) -- The epistemic reformation -- Pandemicity, COVID-19, and the limits of public health "science". 520 $a "In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson, a physician and an anthropologist, contends that public health practices--from epidemiological modeling and outbreak containment to Big Data and causal inference--play an essential role in perpetuating a range of global inequities. Drawing on postcolonial theory, medical anthropology, and critical science studies, Richardson demonstrates the ways in which the flagship discipline of epidemiology has been shaped by the colonial, racist, and patriarchal system that had its inception in 1492" -- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Epidemiology $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a World health $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Equality $x Health aspects. 650 0 $a Social medicine. 650 0 $a Discrimination in medical care. 700 1 $a Farmer, Paul, $d 1959- $e author of foreword. 941 $a 2 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718100208.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20221103012522.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A464365E969D11EBB000DAFF5DECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search