'Monkeypox, where is your rage?': The racialization, sexualization, and securitization of global health
With the purposes of identifying the underlying challenges of global and public health governance of outbreaks, this paper explores three key themes that emerged in response to the 2022 mpox epidemic: the belated change of disease nomenclature from monkeypox to mpox; the classification of mpox as a...
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With the purposes of identifying the underlying challenges of global and public health governance of outbreaks, this paper explores three key themes that emerged in response to the 2022 mpox epidemic: the belated change of disease nomenclature from monkeypox to mpox; the classification of mpox as a sexually transmitted infection (STI); and the unpreparedness of health agencies to vaccinate impacted populations. The paper makes the case that, because of the global and public health tensions arising from racialized nomenclatures, sexualized classifications, biosecuritized borders, and monopolized vaccines, national and international agencies failed in providing an adequate and comprehensive response to the latest mpox pandemic, which contributed further to the pathologization of already vulnerable and stigmatized population groups.
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| spelling | doaj-art-6f8ed803c7454f0aaa8f18c66438e2f82025-08-20T13:49:19ZengCritical Public Health NetworkJournal of Critical Public Health3033-39972024-10-011210.55016/ojs/jcph.v1i2.79353'Monkeypox, where is your rage?': The racialization, sexualization, and securitization of global healthTankut Atuk0Francesca CannonRensselaer Polytechnic Institute With the purposes of identifying the underlying challenges of global and public health governance of outbreaks, this paper explores three key themes that emerged in response to the 2022 mpox epidemic: the belated change of disease nomenclature from monkeypox to mpox; the classification of mpox as a sexually transmitted infection (STI); and the unpreparedness of health agencies to vaccinate impacted populations. The paper makes the case that, because of the global and public health tensions arising from racialized nomenclatures, sexualized classifications, biosecuritized borders, and monopolized vaccines, national and international agencies failed in providing an adequate and comprehensive response to the latest mpox pandemic, which contributed further to the pathologization of already vulnerable and stigmatized population groups. https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jcph/article/view/79353sexual healthpublic healthglobal healthvaccine equalityracism |
| spellingShingle | Tankut Atuk Francesca Cannon 'Monkeypox, where is your rage?': The racialization, sexualization, and securitization of global health Journal of Critical Public Health sexual health public health global health vaccine equality racism |
| title | 'Monkeypox, where is your rage?': The racialization, sexualization, and securitization of global health |
| title_full | 'Monkeypox, where is your rage?': The racialization, sexualization, and securitization of global health |
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| title_short | 'Monkeypox, where is your rage?': The racialization, sexualization, and securitization of global health |
| title_sort | monkeypox where is your rage the racialization sexualization and securitization of global health |
| topic | sexual health public health global health vaccine equality racism |
| url | https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jcph/article/view/79353 |
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