Divorcing ‘Global Health’ from ‘global health’: Theories for the future of a social organization and an idea
Daniel Krugman
Abstract:As conversations and thinking concerning changing the field that calls itself “global health” have proliferated over the past three years, a key predicament has emerged. While almost all in the field agree that something must change, for the vast majority a world without this complex, massive project and apparatus is still unimaginable and undesirable. Arguing that the vagueness yet moral encasing of the field created a situation in which efforts of change must end at preserving the field, I argue that ‘Global… Show more
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