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Decolonial Gestures in Global Health

Gerald M. Boodoo

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Calls are growing to dismantle the enduring colonial structures of global health. This volume, written by healthcare professionals from differing cultures, hears those calls. It offers theoretical and practical approaches to decolonize the field and create more just practices.

Global health care standards have centered white colonial Euro-US priorities in research, prevention, and treatment. They have denigrated the needs and resources of colonized populations.…
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Global health care standards have centered white colonial Euro-US priorities in research, prevention, and treatment. They have denigrated the needs and resources of colonized populations. However, calls have been growing to dismantle the enduring colonial structures and attitudes of global health. This volume, written by healthcare professionals from differing cultures and a range of disciplines, hears those calls. Rethinking healthcare from a decolonial perspective, it suggests what certain aspects of global health could look like. Its goal is not just to acknowledge the needs of non-Western populations but to pluriversalise the field of global health.

Suitable for all who are interested in global health, whether at the academic or practitioner levels, this volume focuses on issues of equity in healthcare from multiple perspectives. Desiring to engage all who are curious about decolonizing global health but are not quite sure how to go about it, these chapters give theoretical and practical approaches to the problem. These are not seen as definitive solutions but as gestures toward creating more just and fair-minded practices in global health.

Gerald M. Boodoo is the Rev. Francis Philben, C.S.SP., Endowed Chair in African Studies and Founding Director of the Center for African Studies at Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. A native of Trinidad & Tobago, his academic engagement with global health began when the Center for African Studies started offering the first official global health programs on Duquesne’s campus. His scholarship always seeks to expose submerged voices and perspectives that serve to dislocate and relocate our ways of thinking and acting toward “good living”. He has published three books, two of which are Religion, Human Dignity and Liberation in 2016 and Religion and the Politics of Integral Justice in 2020, as well as numerous chapters and articles that prioritize questions and perspectives from the “outside” of modernity. Involved in international networks like the World Social Forum, that favor these perspectives, he works to expand these knowledges to wider communities.

Aizhan Raushanova, Aigerim Aliakparova, Vibhuti Arya, Brianna Clark, Bridget Calhoun, Gerald M. Boodoo, Plaxedes Chitiyo, Joshua Nosa Edokpayi, David Kahler, Lisa Lopez Levers, Faina Linkov, Peter Osuji, Megan Overby, Kelly Gettig, Khlood Salman, Panayiota Senekkis Florent, James Withers, Adrian Wright-FitzGerald, Zinat Abdrakhmanova

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-0364-6784-8
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-6784-5
  • Date of Publication: 2026-03-03

Ebook

  • ISBN: 1-0364-6785-6
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-6785-2
  • Date of Publication: 2026-03-03

Subject Codes:

  • BIC: HBTQ, MBN, MBP
  • BISAC: POL045000, POL033000, POL029000, MED078000, MED036000, MED035000
  • THEMA: NHTQ, MBN, MBP
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