Critical Epidemiology and the People’s Health 1st Edition Jaime Breilh

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190492783
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190492786
• Author(s): Jaime Breilh

The widespread growth of monopolies and big business has led to a fourth industrial revolution focused on producing fast, living fast, and dying fast for the sole benefit of accelerated profit. Despite unprecedented accumulations of wealth and industry, the world has watched as indicators of income inequality–a partial parameter of social inequity–have increased, while big business, with their nearly unrestricted influence, has increasingly distorted advancements in medical research.

Bold and incisive, Critical Epidemiology and the People’s Health invites readers to the next great paradigm in public health by promoting a progressive, transdisciplinary, intercultural, community-building approach radically divergent from the presiding object-based, empiricist mode of thinking. A concise overview of the Latin American Social Medicine movement, this book introduces the work of leading scientist Jaime Breilh to a global English audience, focusing on key questions such as: What are the real challenges facing critical epidemiology during the current time of immense turmoil and inequity? How can we conduct responsible and sensitive public health research? What role does epidemiology play in addressing the societal ills of both the global North and South? And how can we create a more rigorous, updated, and effective epidemiology?

Table contents:

Introduction: Critical epidemiology
1. Context, challenges and landmarks of critical epidemiology
2. Method and categories beyond the “knowledge illusion” of the Cartesian lineal causal bubble
3. The common good and the people´s awakening
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

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