The Body of the Species: Enlightenment Logics of Global Public Health Programs

• In Event: Considering the Body

Abstract

In this essay, my argument is to locate discourses of exclusion within contemporary public health programs. My attempt is to bring Continental Philosophy into conversation with the discipline of health communication. I explore the concept of ‘humanitarianism’ as employed in health campaigns even as it is historically based in a particular philosophical tradition. I argue that Continental philosophy, much like health policy has operated on an exclusionary definition of what it means to be human.

Author

• Shaunak Jagdish Sastry, Purdue University