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History of
International Health |
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CHL
5702 H |
Anne-Emanuelle
Birn, MA ScD
Professor and Canada Research Chair in
International Health
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Mondays 10 am - 1 pm, Fall 2010
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This graduate seminar explores the ideologies,
institutions, and practices of the field of
international health from its imperial origins
to the present, covering the role of health in
empire-building and commercial expansion; the
perennial fears of pandemics and their economic
consequences; the "class-ing," "race-ing," and
gendering of international health through
attention to sex, maternity, fertility, and
productivity; and the power and contest over
defining and addressing the diseased mind, body,
and soul of the non-metropolitan subject.
Through examination of historical sources
(documents and films) and scholarly research, we
will seek to understand the political,
scientific, social, and economic underpinnings
of the principles and activities of the
international health field, its embedded
cultural values, and its continuities and
discontinuities. The course provides a critical
historical perspective on many of the
contemporary problems of international health,
such as the tensions of (bio)security,
humanitarianism, foreign policy, and economic
development; the role of international agencies
in shaping/responding to local versus global
priorities and policymaking; and the struggle
over international health's technobiological,
infrastructural, redistributional, and
integrative paradigms of success.
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Cap of 20 students |
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Mondays 1-2pm. 155 College St, Room 558 |
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