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The Colonial Politics of Global Health

France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa
Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
2018
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-98048-8 (ISBN)
59,80 inkl. MwSt
Jessica Lynne Pearson explores the collision between imperial and international visions of health and development in French Africa as postwar decolonization movements gained strength. The consequences of putting politics above public health continue to play out in constraints placed on international health organizations half a century later.
In The Colonial Politics of Global Health, Jessica Lynne Pearson explores the collision between imperial and international visions of health and development in French Africa as decolonization movements gained strength.

After World War II, French officials viewed health improvements as a way to forge a more equitable union between France and its overseas territories. Through new hospitals, better medicines, and improved public health, French subjects could reimagine themselves as French citizens. The politics of health also proved vital to the United Nations, however, and conflicts arose when French officials perceived international development programs sponsored by the UN as a threat to their colonial authority. French diplomats also feared that anticolonial delegations to the United Nations would use shortcomings in health, education, and social development to expose the broader structures of colonial inequality. In the face of mounting criticism, they did what they could to keep UN agencies and international health personnel out of Africa, limiting the access Africans had to global health programs. French personnel marginalized their African colleagues as they mapped out the continent’s sanitary future and negotiated the new rights and responsibilities of French citizenship. The health disparities that resulted offered compelling evidence that the imperial system of governance should come to an end.

Pearson’s work links health and medicine to postwar debates over sovereignty, empire, and human rights in the developing world. The consequences of putting politics above public health continue to play out in constraints placed on international health organizations half a century later.

Jessica Lynne Pearson is Assistant Professor of History at Macalester College.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 10 photos, 2 tables
Verlagsort Cambridge, Mass
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 581 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Medizin / Pharmazie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10 0-674-98048-4 / 0674980484
ISBN-13 978-0-674-98048-8 / 9780674980488
Zustand Neuware
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