Open AccessThe problem of self-devouring growth
Author(s) -
Julie Livingston
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
medicine anthropology theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2405-691X
DOI - 10.17157/mat.6.3.736
Subject(s) - collateral , value (mathematics) , consumption (sociology) , process (computing) , collateral damage , public health , sociology , psychology , positive economics , economics , political science , medicine , computer science , social science , law , criminology , nursing , machine learning , operating system
How should future health be measured, in light of the insights collected in this special issue? This afterword calls into question the imperative of economic growth, showing how insatiable growth, predicated on consumption, produces profound collateral health effects, a process termed here ‘self-devouring growth’. I argue for a new mode of value in public health predicated on refusing any calculus that separates desired effects from collateral effects.