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Posthumanism and Public Health

Posthumanism and Public Health

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Medical ReferencePoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 0367264870
ISBN13: 9780367264871
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 22 2019
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.85 Depth: 9.69
Language: English

The intellectual and moral imperatives that underscore public health have sustained the idea that its fundamental scope is the study of human health, illness and suffering, and that these are self-evidently attributable to individuals and groups of people. This edited collection explores to what extent a shift towards more posthuman perspectives - where the status of the human as the obvious focus for our attention is de-stabilised - might catalyse complimentary or alternative accounts of common topics in public health. The collection argues that through this posthuman approach, standard categories such as health, illness and even the body might be re-conceived as interactions between different entities - between people, other living things, material objects and the environment - rather than as inherently human properties.

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