{"product_id":"antiblackness-and-global-health-by-lioba-hirsch-9780745346281","title":"Antiblackness and Global Health","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAntiblackness and Global Health\u003c\/em\u003e offers a major new account of the 2014-2016 West African Ebola crisis and a radical perspective on the racial politics of global health.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLioba Hirsch traces the legacies of colonialism across the landscape of global health in Sierra Leone, showing how this history underpinned the international response to Ebola. The book moves from the material and atmospheric traces of colonialism and enslavement in Freetown, to the forms of knowledge presented in colonial archives and in contemporary expert accounts, to disease control and care practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed, health inequalities around the world disproportionately affect people of African descent. This book aims to equip critical scholars, medical and humanitarian practitioners, policy makers and health activists with the tools and knowledge to challenge antiblackness in global health practice and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book argues that Black Studies can inform future research on medical interventions in Africa by unpacking postcolonial silences, centring Black perspectives and highlighting the endurance of colonial infrastructures in the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47460197368044,"sku":"9780745346281","price":59.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780745346281-antiblackness-and-global-health.jpg?v=1774945440","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/antiblackness-and-global-health-by-lioba-hirsch-9780745346281","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}