Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries To date, geography has not yet carved out a disciplin ary niche within the diffuse domain that constitutes global health. However, the compul sion to do and under­ stand global health emerges largely from contexts that geography has long engaged with: urbanisa tion, glob al isa tion, political economy, risk, vulner ab il ity, life styles, geopol it ics, culture, governance, devel op ment and the envir on ment. Moreover, global health brings with it an innate, power ful and politicising spatial logic that is only now starting to emerge as an object of enquiry. This book aims to draw atten tion to and show case the wealth of exist ing and emer gent geograph ical contribu tions to what has recently been termed ‘crit ical global health studies’. Geographical perspect ives, this collection argues, are essen tial to bring ing new and crit ical perspectives to bear on the inher ent complex­ it ies and inter con nec ted ness of global health prob lems and purpor ted solu tions. Thus, rather than rehearsing the frequent critique that global health is more a ‘set of prob lems’ than a coherent disciplin ary approach to amelior at ing the health of all and redress ing global bio­ inequalit ies; this collec tion seeks to explore what these prob lems might repres ent and the geograph ical imaginar ies inher ent in their consti tu tion. This unique volume of geograph ical writ ings on global health not only deepens social scientific engage ments with health itself, but in so doing, brings forth a series of new concep tual, method o lo gical and empirical contribu tions to social scientific, multidisciplin ary schol ar ship. Clare Herrick is a Reader in human geography at King’s College London, UK. Her research critic ally explores the intersec tions of beha vi oural risk factors with urban envir on ments across a variety of geographic settings. David Reubi is a Wellcome Trust Fellow at the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, King’s College London, UK. His research explores the knowledges, socialities and material forms that undergird the politics and practices of contemporary global health and medicine. He is currently working on the biopol it ics of the African smoking epidemic. Routledge Studies in Public Health A full list of titles in this sereis is available at: www.routledge.com/Routledge­Studies­in­Public­Health/book­series/RSPH Gender- based Violence and Public Health International perspectives on budgets and policies Edited by Keerty Nakray Assembling Health Rights in Global Context Genealogies and Anthropologies Edited by Alex Mold and David Reubi Empowerment, Health Promotion and Young People A Critical Approach Grace Spencer Risk Communication and Infectious Diseases in an Age of Digital Media Edited by Anat Gesser­Edelsburg and Yaffa Shir­Raz Youth Drinking Cultures in a Digital World Alcohol, Social Media and Cultures of Intoxication Edited by Anotnia Lyons, Tim McCreanor, Ian Goodwin and Helen Moewaka Barnes Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries Edited by Clare Herrick and David Reubi Forthcoming titles: Globalization, Environmental Health and Social Justice R. Scott Frey Women’s Health and Complementary and Integrative Medicine Edited by Jon Adams, Amie Steel and Alex Broom Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries Edited by Clare Herrick and David Reubi First published 2017 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa busi ness © 2017 selection and editor ial material, Clare Herrick and David Reubi; indi vidual chapters, the contribut ors The right of the Clare Herrick and David Reubi to be identi fied as the authors of the editor ial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. 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Identifiers: LCCN 2016036638| ISBN 9781138852389 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315723525 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: World health. | Medical geography. | Economic development—Health aspects. | Public health—Developing countries. Classification: LCC RA441 .G5678 2017 | DDC 362.1—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016036638 ISBN: 978­1­138­85238­9 (hbk) ISBN: 978­1­315­72352­5 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by RefineCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk Contents Notes on contribut ors vii Introduction ix PART I Global health imaginar ies 1 1 HIV, AIDS and the global imagin ary 3 GERRY KEARNS 2 Temporal and spatial imagin ar ies of global health: tobacco, non- commu nic able diseases and modern ity 22 DAVID REUBI 3 Exemplary or exceptional? The produc tion and dismant ling of global health in Botswana 40 BETSEY BEHR BRADA 4 Mixing and fixing: managing and imagin ing the body in a global world 54 SARAH ATKINSON PART II Global health, power and polit ics 73 5 Making ties through making drugs: part ner ships for tuber cu losis drug and vaccine devel op ment 75 SUSAN CRADDOCK 6 Living well with para sitic worms: a more- than-human geography of global health 94 JAMIE LORIMER vi Contents 7 Resistant bodies, malaria and the ques tion of immunity 114 ULI BEISEL 8 A gene a logy of evid ence at the WHO 135 NELE JENSEN PART III When solu tions make prob lems 157 9 More than one world, more than one health: re-config ur ing inter- species health 159 STEPHEN HINCHLIFFE: 10 The needs of the ‘other’ global health: the case of Remote Air Medical 176 PAUL JACKSON AND CAITLIN HENRY 11 Eat your greens, buy some chips: contest ing artic ula tions of food and food secur ity in childr en’s lives. 195 JANE BATTERSBY 12 Structural viol ence, capab il it ies and the exper i en tial polit ics of alcohol regu la tion 216 CLARE HERRICK Index 231 Notes on contrib ut ors Sarah Atkinson is Professor of Geography and Medical Humanities at Durham University. Her research is char ac ter ised by interdis cip lin ary encounters through which tease out and interrog ate the assumptions under ly ing main­ stream health­ related policies and prac tices. These include the inter pret a tion and practice of well­ being and the under stand ings and constraints of care and respons ib il ity. She is one of the editors of The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities and Wellbeing and Place. Jane Battersby is a senior researcher at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and research coordinator of the ESRC/DFID­funded Consuming Urban Poverty Project. Her research for the past ten years has focused on urban food secur ity and urban food systems in Africa. Uli Beisel is Assistant Professor of Culture and Technology at Bayreuth University, Germany. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Geography from the Open University. She has worked on human–mosquito–para site entan gle ments in malaria control in Ghana and Sierra Leone, and the trans la tion of new tech no lo gies in Uganda and Rwanda. She is currently research ing trust in biomedi cine and health care infra struc tures follow ing the Ebola epidemic. She has published articles in Science as Culture, Society and Space, Biosocieties and Geoforum. Betsey Behr Brada is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Reed College. Her research focuses on transna tional health interven tions, biomedical expertise, and the postco lo nial state in southern Africa. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and completed a postdoc toral fellowship in Princeton University’s Program in Global Health and Health Policy. Susan Craddock’s research focuses on social and political factors shaping the experi ence and patterns of, as well as responses to, infectious diseases. She has published on access to AIDS drugs, non­ commercial clinical trials, and the roles of poverty, gender and race in public health responses to tubercu losis. Her forthcom ing book, Compound Solutions: Pharmaceutical Alternatives for Global Health, is on collabor at ive efforts to produce new tuber culosis vaccines and drugs for the first time in decades. viii Contributors Caitlin Henry is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the impacts of healthcare restruc tur ing on the geograph ies of social repro duc tion, nursing and health care services in the USA. Clare Herrick is a Reader in Human Geography at King’s College London. Her research explores the inter sec tions of beha vi oural risk factors for non­ commu­ nic able disease, urban governance agendas and devel op ment.