Prologue: A Story with Sixteen Tellers by Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, Claudia Lang, Jean-Paul Gaudillière
Introduction: Health Universalism and the Health of Others by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, Claudia Lang
Periodization
A Field and What Else?
The Game of Scales
Standardization
What’s Neoliberal in Global Health?
Multi-scalar methodologies
Chapter 1: Localization in the Global by Andrew McDowell, Lucile Ruault, Olivia Fiorilli, Laurent Pordié
Grounding localization
The Local as Site of Innovation
SkyCare and the Virtual Global
Community: The Discursive Local
The Local as Hub of Global Circulations
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Metrics for Development by Anne M. Lovell, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Claudia Lang, Claire Beaudevin
Introduction
Global Burden of Disease Season 1: The World Bank’s Tool for Prioritizing Health Investments
Putting GBD 1 to Use: The Real but Problematic “Economization” of National Investments in Health
Global Burden of Disease, Season 2 (GBD 2): Limitations and Legitimation
Challenging GBD 2
Crises of ownership and counting
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Triage Beyond the Clinic by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, Claire Beaudevin
Political Triage and its Economic Alternative: The Primary Health Care Strategy and its Eclipse
Strategy in Practice—The Essential Drugs List and the Rise of the “Selective” Primary Health Care
The 1990s and Its Aftermath: Performance-Based Triage and the World Bank
Triage toward Disease Control: Tuberculosis and “Verticalization” in Global Health
Comprehensive Primary Healthcare, Medical Genetics, and Task Shifting in Oman
Distributed Political Triage in Kerala
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Markets, Medicines, and Health Globalization by Caroline Meier zu Biesen, Laurent Pordié, Jessica Pourraz, Jean-Paul Gaudillière
Introduction
Toward a Global Market: Branded Artemisinin Drugs Reaching Tanzania
Rethinking Medicine Making: The Local Production of Generic Anti-Malarials in Ghana
The Reformulation Regime: Industrial Ayurveda Goes Global
Transactions at the Interstices: The Licit and Illicit Circulation of Drugs in Cambodia
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Tech for All by Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, Mandy Geise, Sameea Ahmed Hassim, Vegard Sture
The Launching of a Depression Technopack
A Sliding Scale: TB
GeneXpert: Of Genes and Experts
Technopacking Genomics, Mestizaje and Diabetes in Mexico
Cuba’s Prenatal Screening Technopack
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Persistent Hospitals by Claire Beaudevin, Fanny Chabrol, Claudia Lang
Introduction
Crafting Medical Genetics in an Omani Hospital
Providing Multidrug-resistant Treatment in a Tuberculosis Hospital in Tanzania
The Mental Hospital and Community Mental Health in India
Conclusion
Chapter 7: Provincializing the WHO by Christoph Gradmann, Olivia Fiorilli, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Caroline Meier zu Biesen, Lucile Ruault, Simeng Wang
Tuberculosis, the Making of DOTS and the Decline of Primary Health Care
The WHO and the World Bank: Revisiting the “Take-over”
The WHO and the Missed Opportunity for a Global Agenda on Human Genetics, 1980s–2000s
Transregional Health Encounters: Indian Ayurveda, African markets, and the WHO’s Guiding Principles
A Road to Africa – China and Global Health
Conclusion
Epilogue: The Health of Others, Covid-19 and BeyondClaudia Lang, Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, Jean-Paul Gaudillière
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index