The Global Menace

Social History of Medicine : the Journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine
Sarah Hodges

Abstract

The history of medicine has gone 'global.' Why? Can the proliferation of the 'global' in our writing be explained away as a product of staying true to our historical subjects' categories? Or has this historiography in fact delivered a new 'global' problematic or performed serious 'global' analytic work? The situation is far from clear, and it is the tension between the global as descriptor and an analytics of the global that concerns me here. I have three main concerns: (1) that there is an epistemic collusion between the discourses of universality that inform medical science and global-talk; (2) that the embrace of the 'global' authorises a turning away from analyses of power in history-writing in that (3) this turning away from analyses of power in history-writing leads to scholarship that reproduces rather than critiques globalisation as a set of institutions, discourses and practices.

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Dec 3, 2005·American Journal of Public Health·Theodore M BrownElizabeth Fee
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Oct 30, 2008·Medical Anthropology·Vincanne AdamsHannah Leslie
Mar 31, 2009·Bulletin of the History of Medicine·Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Niels Brimnes

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Citations

Dec 29, 2017·Anthropology & Medicine·Ingrid Sykes, Harish Naraindas
Jul 13, 2018·Journal of Global History·Martin Gorsky, Christopher Sirrs
May 1, 2016·Social History of Medicine : the Journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine·Martin D Moore
Dec 23, 2017·Global Public Health·Hansjörg Dilger, Dominik Mattes
Mar 20, 2019·Global Public Health·Vincanne AdamsFrancisco Ortega

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