On the coloniality of global public health

• DOI: 10.17157/mat.6.4.761
• Publication Date: 2019-12-17T09:22:20Z
• Authors: Eugene T. Richardson
• Keywords: Demise; Undoing; Causation; Empiricism

The continued inordinate demise from communicable pathogens in the global South is not result of an intractable problem thwarting our best efforts to prevent and cure disease; we have means. Rather, as accomplice contemporary imperialism, public health manages (as a profession) maintains academic discipline) inequity. It does this through 'bourgeois empiricist' models disease causation, which serve protected affluence by uncritically reifying inequitable social relations modern/colonial matrix power making them appear commonsensical.