In pursuit of zero: Polio, global health security and the politics of eradication in Peshawar, Pakistan

Taylor, Stephen

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.01.004

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“…Fassin 2006;Biehl and Petryna 2013;MacPhail 2014;Adams 2016;Brives, Marcis, and Sanabria 2016), and to a lesser extent in geography (e.g. Brown, Craddock, and Ingram 2012; Brown and Moon 2012; Herrick 2014; Reubi 2016;Taylor 2016). These studies have tended to break down according to the same areas of focus as the programs they analyze: (1) examinations of training and clinical interventions; (2) explorations of the production of global health knowledge, especially in the Global South; and (3) studies of the novel modes of governmental regulation emerging today.…”

Section: Critical Studies Of Global Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, Stephen Taylor critiques the large-scale global health rhetoric inspired by the Gates Foundation around the "eradication" of various diseases. By detailing the different discourses of two different polio eradication campaigns in Pakistan, he reveals a focus on individual people as the problem for polio eradication, rather than broader political-economic forces (Taylor 2016). In another example, Clare Herrick uses contingency theory to examine the unexpected results of the implementation of an alcohol tax in Botswana implemented in response to new global health priorities (Herrick 2016).…”

Section: Critical Studies Of Global Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Global health from the outside: The promise of place-based research

Neely

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2017

Health & Place

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Section: Critical Studies Of Global Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Critical Studies Of Global Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global health from the outside: The promise of place-based research

Neely

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2017

Health & Place

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“…While I welcome such critical accounts of the broader geopolitical and geo‐economic influences on human health, we must not elide the personal and private efforts of individuals seeking to cultivate novel ways of living with enigmatic and enduring conditions. We should, instead, continue to expose the political nature of global health interventions while also remaining attentive to the incomplete, idiosyncratic and indeterminate nature of human experiences of health (Biehl ; Laurie ; Taylor ). The significance of the junior psychiatrists’ compelling accounts is that they open a window for us onto this neglected terrain.…”

Section: Reconceptualising the Mental Health ‘Treatment Gap’mentioning

confidence: 99%

Making space for restoration: epistemological pluralism within mental health interventions in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Taylor

2017

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Global health policymakers have recently begun to focus their attention on high levels of untreated mental illness in low-and middle-income countries. They have, in turn, initiated a series of interventions intended to reduce the global 'treatment gap' that has emerged between those requiring treatment and those able to access it. Yet critics have challenged the questionable epistemological assumptions embedded in these interventions and have decried the lack of attention given to the translation and implementation of such projects in resource-limited contexts. In this paper, I focus on ongoing attempts to diminish the mental health treatment gap in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo to illuminate how dominant thinking about ameliorating the global treatment gap remains rooted in a reductive biomedical paradigm. Drawing on interviews conducted with 16 psychiatrists in the city, I show how a series of epistemological assumptions about treatment have affected the success of treatment delivery in two donor-funded interventions. I then contrast the dominant biomedical approach with the perspectives of three younger voices in the city's psychiatric community. I reveal how an alternative epistemological framework, similar to that of the phenomenological tradition, informs their own successful treatment expansion efforts. This alternative perspective, I propose, challenges practitioners and geographers alike to cultivate new ways of approaching global mental health that acknowledge the value of patient experiences and make possible more responsive forms of treatment and care.

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“…human communities fighting for access to needed drugs to combat a disease, such as Lyme; see Davis and Nichter, 2016) and thrive on human inequality and the calculation of government (e.g. as practices of polio eradication intersect with the politics of who may live and who may die; see Taylor, 2016).…”

Section: A Bug’s Advantage Human Inequalitymentioning

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Social geography(ies) III

Casino

2016

Progress in Human Geography

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This report examines how social geography engages with nonhuman subjects; in this case, bugs. The report focuses on how social geography is rethinking its core concepts of difference and inequality through scholarship that examines the relations between bugs and human inequality, bug management and molecular intervention on/in bugs, and the biosocial relations bugs help forge. It does so while opening up what bugs – not just insects, but also a wider range of bugs, such as viruses, bacteria, and parasites operating within and beyond the human body – offer to our theorization and examination of everyday social life.

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In pursuit of zero: Polio, global health security and the politics of eradication in Peshawar, Pakistan

Cited by 15 publications

References 51 publications

Global health from the outside: The promise of place-based research

Global health from the outside: The promise of place-based research

Making space for restoration: epistemological pluralism within mental health interventions in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Social geography(ies) III

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