Global Health in the Global North: Techno-Optimism and the Value of Storytelling for the Future of Health...

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Steven P. Black

Global Health in the Global North

Techno-Optimism and the Value of Storytelling for the Future of Health Equity

Steven P. Black

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English

Routledge
16 June 2025

Sociolinguistics; Semantics; Anthropology; Public health & preventive medicine; Medical sociology

Series: Routledge Studies in Health Humanities

This book investigates how health interventions are imagined into being in high-income countries, drawing on over seven years of fieldwork in the self-described “global health capital” Atlanta to consider the role of storytelling in the construction of global health futures.

The volume highlights the ways in which scientific storytelling is critical to our understanding of how global health futures are constructed. The book examines three value types—epistemic, ethical, and economic—central to contemporary global health and three linguistic and communicative phenomena—multimodal poetics, emplotment, and discursive circulation—significant to the constitution of these values through storytelling. In spotlighting the Atlanta metropolitan region, home to a number of prominent organizations and figures in the development of global health, the book showcases deeper insights into the future-oriented and techno-optimistic stories global health professionals tell each other, funders, and the public. Black builds on these discussions to suggest ways forward for these stories to be improved to foster greater equity and decolonization and re-imagine the future of global health.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars in linguistic anthropology, medical anthropology, global health, and health humanities.

By: Steven P. Black
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 520g
ISBN: 9781032910284
ISBN 10: 1032910283
Series: Routledge Studies in Health Humanities
Pages: 182
Publication Date: 16 June 2025
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Figures Excerpts Acknowledgments Introduction 2. Making Health Global in Atlanta: A History 3. The Multimodal Poetics of Ethical Values 4. The Economic Value of Story Circulation 5. The Emplotment of Epistemic Values 6. Recruiting Epistemic and Ethical Values for Global Health Audiences (by Steven P. Black and Gabriela Alvarado) 7. Re-Imagining the Future of Global Health Equity, and What This Says About Storytelling and Value Index

Steven P. Black is Professor of Anthropology at Georgia State University, USA.