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Critical Global Heath Seminar Series The last decade has seen the emergence of global health as a conceptual framework for understanding the global processes that shape patterns of sickness and health in various parts of the world, as well as the activities of international health organizations, donor countries, national governments, NGOs, and local and transnational advocacy groups in combating health problems around the globe. More recently, a number of scholars have begun to conduct ethnographic and historically informed studies to examine critically these processes and institutions and to interrogate the complex set of political, economic, social, and ecological forces that are driving patterns of sickness and health and responses to them. The Critical Global Health Studies Seminar is designed as a forum to allow interested faculty and students to engage with this emerging body of critical work. Each seminar will feature an invited speaker who will pre-circulate a paper to be discussed during the seminar. Speakers will present a work in progress. They will provide a short introduction to their paper, to be followed by comments and questions from a student discussant. The bulk of the seminar time will be devoted to an open (and we hope lively) discussion of the paper. |
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