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.
