Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation

Auteur(s) : Pearson, Jessica Lynne (1984-....). Auteur du texte  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : The colonial politics of global health [Texte imprimé] : France and the United Nations in postwar Africa / Jessica Lynne Pearson

Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard University Press, 2018

Description matérielle : x, 260 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
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.

Sujet(s) : Politique sanitaire -- Administration -- Afrique francophone -- XXe siècle  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Soins médicaux -- Aspect politique -- Afrique francophone -- XXe siècle  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Décolonisation -- Afrique francophone  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Colonies françaises -- Afrique -- Administration -- Services de santé -- XXe siècle  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Organisation mondiale de la santé  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Indice(s) Dewey :  362.109 66 (23e éd.) = Maladies physiques (problèmes et services sociaux) - Afrique occidentale  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674980488. - ISBN 0674980484 (rel.)

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb45731331b

Notice n° :  FRBNF45731331 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)