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The Global Menace.

Sarah Hodges1

  • 1Department of History at the University of Warwick, UK.

Social History of Medicine : the Journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine
|September 9, 2015
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The history of medicine increasingly uses "global" terminology. This shift may obscure power dynamics and inadvertently reinforce globalization, rather than critically examining it.

Area of Science:

  • Medical History
  • Global Health Studies
  • Historiography

Background:

  • The increasing prevalence of "global" in medical history writing.
  • Uncertainty regarding whether this reflects historical subjects' categories or a new analytical approach.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the tension between "global" as a descriptor and the analytics of the global in medical history.
  • To examine the implications of "global" terminology on power analyses within the field.

Main Methods:

  • Critical analysis of historiographical trends in medical history.
  • Examination of the relationship between medical science's universalist discourse and "global" terminology.
  • Assessment of how "global" framing impacts the analysis of power structures.
Keywords:
critical historyglobal healthglobalisationpost-colonial medicine

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Main Results:

  • Identifies an "epistemic collusion" between universalist medical science discourses and "global" talk.
  • Suggests the embrace of "global" can lead to an avoidance of power analyses in historical scholarship.
  • Highlights the risk of reproducing, rather than critiquing, globalization's institutions, discourses, and practices.

Conclusions:

  • The uncritical adoption of "global" in medical history risks obscuring power dynamics.
  • Further critical engagement with the analytics of the global is necessary for robust historical scholarship.
  • Medical history must actively interrogate globalization rather than passively reflect it.