Global Health Interventions: The Military, the Magic Bullet, the Deterministic Model-and Intervention Otherwise

• Main Authors: Yates-Doerr, Emily, Carruth, Lauren, Lasco, Gideon, García-Meza, Rosario
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2023
• Subjects: aid; anthropology; colonialism; global medicine; global public health; health care; Anthropology; Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/136; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/article/1136/viewcontent/yates_doerr_et_al_2023_global_health_interventions_the_military_the_magic_bullet_the_deterministic_model_and.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

"Intervention" is central to global health, but the significance and effects of how intervention is practiced are often taken for granted. This review takes interventions into health and medicine as subjects for ethnographic inquiry. We highlight three lines of anthropological contribution...