Who has a right to health, and who is responsible for maintaining it? Who should pay for it and who
should provide it? Questions around access to health and medical management have been
central to how international order, state formations and political systems have been imagined and organised in
the 20th century. We will explore relationships among social and political structures and health in
local, national and global contexts, moving in space, time and thematic approach throughout the
course. We will focus on intersections of medical technologies and scientific knowledge; social
movements and political ideologies, such as socialism and decolonisation; reproductive
rights and women’s health movements; pharmaceutical production and markets;
and the rise of global health and the neoliberal world order. |
