In this commentary, we review the growth of populist politics, associated with exploitation of what has been termed fake news. We explore how certain words have been used in similar contexts historically, in particular the term “enemy of the people,” especially with regard to public health. We then set out 6 principles for public health professionals faced with these situations. First, using th...

Health care services increasingly face patient populations with high levels of ethnic and cultural diversity. Cultures are associated with distinctive ways of life; concepts of personhood; value systems; and visions of the good that affect illness experience, help seeking, and clinical decision-making. Cultural differences may impede access to health care, accurate diagnosis, and effective trea...

Against the background of media commercialization reform since 1990s in China and drawing on case »X-Change« (2006-2019), Wei Dong investigates affective meaning-making mechanism multimodal text Chinese reality TV. The focus lies ways which emotions are appropriated disciplined by regimes power identity, affect - this primarily kuqing (bitter emotions) communicated material body have potential ...

Straw men play a major role in the debate over racial disparity in American medicine. Most have been deployed by the disparities-denying right, but progressives intent on "outing" racism have sent forth their share. This essay flushes out the straw men while attempting to understand the competing moral premises that drive the politics of health care disparity. At bottom, arguments about the sco...

This article introduces the key issues and themes that articles in Special Issue aim to apply develop greater detail. First, we argue field of collective remembering can be conceived as a site active contestation, rather than simply means communicating historic past or our deontic position relation these pasts. Approaching Lieu de Dispute allows us, turn, foreground three consequential dimensio...

What are the politics of boredom? And how should we relate to In this paper, I explore these questions through cases where disaffection and restlessness boredom have become a matter concern in UK USA at junctures between Fordism neoliberalism, amid today’s resurgence right-wing populism. argue that what repeats across critique ‘ordinary ordinariness’ Fordism, neoliberal counterrevolution populi...