1st Edition
Global Health in the Global North Techno-Optimism and the Value of Storytelling for the Future of Health Equity
By Steven P. Black
Copyright 2025
196 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
196 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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.
The volume highlights the ways in which scientific storytelling is critical to our understanding of how global health... Read more
List of Figures
Excerpts
Acknowledgments
Introduction
2. Making Health Global in Atlanta: A History
3. The Multimodal Poetics of Ethical Values
4. The Economic Value of Story Circulation
5. The Emplotment of Epistemic Values
6. Recruiting Epistemic and Ethical Values for Global Health Audiences (by Steven P. Black and Gabriela Alvarado)
7. Re-Imagining the Future of Global Health Equity, and What This Says About Storytelling and Value
Index
Biography
Steven P. Black is Professor of Anthropology at Georgia State University, USA.
