Richardson Eugene T
Harvard Medical School.
Med Anthropol Theory. 2019 Dec 16;6(4):101-118. doi: 10.17157/mat.6.4.761.
The continued inordinate demise from communicable pathogens in the global South is not the result of an intractable problem thwarting our best efforts to prevent and cure disease; we have the means. Rather, as an accomplice to contemporary imperialism, public health manages (as a profession) and maintains (as an academic discipline) global health inequity. It does this through 'bourgeois empiricist' models of disease causation, which serve protected affluence by uncritically reifying inequitable social relations in the modern/colonial matrix of power and making them appear commonsensical.
全球南方因传染性病原体导致的持续过度死亡，并非是由于一个棘手问题阻碍了我们预防和治疗疾病的最大努力；我们有办法解决。相反，作为当代帝国主义的同谋，公共卫生（作为一种职业）管理并（作为一门学科）维持着全球卫生不平等。它通过“资产阶级经验主义”的疾病因果关系模型来做到这一点，这种模型通过不加批判地固化现代/殖民权力矩阵中不公平的社会关系并使其显得理所当然，从而服务于受保护的富裕阶层。
