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Attention and Responsibility in Global Health: The Currency of Neglect

Attention and Responsibility in Global Health: The Currency of Neglect

Vanderslott, Samantha

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Research in Ignorance Studies

Medical ReferenceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0367376539
ISBN13: 9780367376536
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 15 2021
Pages: 192
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Attention and Responsibility in Global Health shows the construction of health through what is neglected and how the label of neglect is used to make the case that a shift in attitudes towards tropical diseases is based on changing policy practices of health and disease.

Tropical diseases have moved from being of high importance for European empires to being neglected and unknown, and then returning to the spotlight once again. During this process, the understanding, framing, and overall character of the disease grouping has changed through a rediscovery of a health issue once rendered neglectable. The book depicts this change in relevance of tropical diseases from colonial history to the present day diseases across political, cultural, and socio- economic contexts. It shows the transformation of tropical diseases as a grouping that uncovers the changing strategies, tactics, and unintended consequences of advocacy campaigning by scientists, NGOs, and policymakers to drive disease issues up the policy agenda.

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