Introduction – Posthuman perspectives: relevance for a global public health Simon Cohn and Rebecca Lynch
1. On difference and doubt as tools for critical engagement with public health Catherine M. Will
2. Posthumanist critique and human health: how nonhumans (could) figure in public health research Carrie Friese and Nathalie Nuyts
3. Who or what is ‘the public’ in critical public health? Reflections on posthumanism and anthropological engagements with One Health Melanie J. Rock
4. Enacting toxicity: epidemiology and the study of air pollution for public health Emma Garnett
5. The injecting ‘event’: harm reduction beyond the human Fay Dennis
6. Biopolitical precarity in the permeable body: the social lives of people, viruses and their medicines Elizabeth Mills
7. Beyond the person: the construction and transformation of blood as a resource Rebecca Lynch and Simon Cohn
8. Technologies of the self in public health: insights from public deliberations on cognitive and behavioural enhancement P. Lehoux, B. Williams-Jones, D. Grimard and S. Proulx
9. Commentary: Pigs in public health Mette N. Svendsen
Biography
Simon Cohn is Professor in Medical Anthropology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK. Drawing increasingly on science studies and practice theory, his research has focused on issues related to diagnosis, contested conditions and chronic illness in the UK and other high-income societies.
Rebecca Lynch is a Research Fellow in Medical Anthropology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK. Her research is interested in constructions of the body, health and illness particularly in relation to morality, values and categorisation. She has undertaken ethnographic fieldwork in Trinidad and research projects in the UK.
