New Directions in Critical Public Health

Health in Turbulent Times

Lindsay McLaren, Judith Green, Ronald Labonte

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Routledge
15 September 2025

Illness & addiction: social aspects; Sociology; Personal & public health; Medical sociology

In an era where debates about public health research, policy, and practice are central to the wider socio-political discourse, this invaluable volume brings together key themes from the last 15 years of critical scholarship in and of public health.

The book provides both empirical examples and the conceptual tools for rethinking the role of public health in society, challenging the familiar biomedicalized and individualized discourse that has dominated throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Divided into nine chapters, it covers key topics such as complex systems of health determinants, evidence-making in public health, and the role of corporate actors and philanthropists. Reframing the field through local and global political lenses, New Directions in Critical Public Health: Health in Turbulent Times also integrates interdisciplinary perspectives to provide a truly holistic overview of this rapidly evolving area.

It will interest not only students and scholars of public health and the health sciences more widely, but also those in the fields of sociology, political and development studies, and economics.

By: Lindsay McLaren, Judith Green, Ronald Labonte
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781041103653
ISBN 10: 1041103654
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 15 September 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction. 1.Political economy of knowledge production. 2.Making evidence: complexity, trials and epistemic justice. 3.Public health, medicalization, and biomedicalization. 4.Keeping the pressure on: critical public health and the social determinants of health inequities. 5.Beyond behaviour: social practices and ‘more than human’ health. 6.Beyond the state: the health perils of neoliberal globalization. 7.Global health governance, the state, and healthy social movement activism. 8.Conclusion: we are all now (critical) political economists.

Lindsay McLaren is Professor of Population and Public Health at the University of Calgary, Canada; Research Associate at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (National Office); and Co-Editor of the Journal of Critical Public Health. Judith Green is Professor of Sociology in the Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health and the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter, UK, and Co-Editor of the Journal of Critical Public Health. Ronald Labonté is Professor Emeritus in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Canada; a member of the global People's Health Movement's Steering Council; and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Globalization and Health.