Expertise in global health and global health ethics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12692466 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sridhar Venkatapuram (0000-0003-3076-0783, Population Health Sciences, King’s College London, London, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15-16 |
| Publication date | 2025-08-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-215X • E-ISSN: 1473-4265 |
| Publisher | BMJ (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1136/medhum-2025-013482 |
| PMID | 40854795 |
| OpenAlex | W4413674274 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This commentary discusses how professionalisation and expertise is both a positive, constructive project as well as an exclusionary one. The discussion suggests that global health, rather than being a new sub-field of science catalysed by new discoveries, is better understood as being part of the economic and scientific expansionism of the few richest G7 countries. It is argued that global health expertise, aside from scientific expertise, also involves expertise in being a driver of the expansionism. It also points to ethical expansionism and signs of epistemic domination of global health ethics by scholars from 2-3 countries. The collection of contributions in this first Black and Brown in Bioethics topic collection is described as being an effort to resist the exclusionary and expansionist aspects of global health expertise, while also exhorting to do better at saving lives with better ethics
Aside · Bioethics · Constructive · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Expansionism · Field (mathematics · Global health · Health care · Political science · Research ethics · Social science · Sociology · Ethics in Clinical Research · Ethics in medical practice · Global Health and Surgery · Law · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |