Health and healthcare provision are an utterly complicated affair. Critical medical anthropologists have shown how even the most intimate aspects of illness and health are to be understood in the light of larger political-economic forces that shape human existence and experience. In current times of proliferating socioeconomic inequalities, anthropogenic climate change, and violent political conflict, the authors of this cache volume Radical Health attend to the multiple ways in which health is envisioned, theorized, and actually ‘done’ despite much adversity. Assembling a diverse mix of scholars, healthcare practitioners, activists, and artists, the volume is concerned with the relations between health, power, and inequality, but also looks at diverse aspirations for collective care, solidarity, friendship, and more just futures.

With contributions by Beatriz Aragón Martín, Julia Nina Baumann, Richard Bůžek, Adrián Carrasco, Thandeka Dlamini-Simelane, Iris Dzudzek, Andreas Exner, Bettina Franke, Susanne Hübl, Lisa Kamphaus, Janina Kehr, Rachel Kingsley, Daniela Krüger, Claudia Lang, Vivian Laurens, Jonas Löwenberg, Lucia Mair, Dominik Mattes, Caroline Meier zu Biesen, Sevasti-Melissa Nolas, Marta Pérez, Tyyne Claudia Pollmann, Anne-Sophie Reichert, Stefan Reinsch, Melina Rutishauser, Estrella Sánchez-Gamborino, Angela Schuster, Anke Strüver, Vasilis Tsapas, Esther Vorwerk, Hannah Weingartner, Katharina Weingartner, Nora Wuttke, Ana Zamora.