Global Health in the Global North - Techno Optimism Value of Storytelling for Future of Health Equity

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Steven P. Black is Professor of Anthropology at Georgia State University, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Steven P. Black, Black Steven
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 29.04.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781032910284
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3291028-4
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Routledge Studies in Health Humanities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Discourse Analysis, Atlanta, MEDICAL / Public Health, Anthropology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Sociolinguistics, Human biology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Public health and preventive medicine, Medical Anthropology, Research methods: general