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Unpacking Economism and Remapping the Terrain of Global Health

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Global Health Governance

Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series ((IPES))

Abstract

We are in transition from what seemed a relatively stable, state defined and structured world of international health to a diffuse political space of global health. We need to analyse to what extent the political ecosystem that inhabits this space transfers power and to whom. We need to map the epistemic communities and the multitude of networks and their spheres of influence (Ilona Kickbusch, 2003).

My thanks to Griffith University’s Democracy, Security & Public Policy Strategic Research Program for supporting the Brisbane conference on global health governance at which this paper was first presented. My thanks to Kelley Lee for her encouraging comments in Australia and for alerting me to the history of tropical disease in London. In addition, I am grateful to all the ideas shared by students in my Spring 2008 graduate class on Global Health at the University of Washington.

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  1. Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University, Australia

    Adrian Kay

  2. University of Salford, UK

    Adrian Kay

  3. Centre for Health and International Relations, Aberystwyth University, UK

    Owain David Williams

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Sparke, M. (2009). Unpacking Economism and Remapping the Terrain of Global Health. In: Kay, A., Williams, O.D. (eds) Global Health Governance. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230249486_7

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