Global Health: Local Perspectives & Insights

Seye Abimbola’s The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health takes a kaleidoscopic view of the effects of outsider visions and imaginaries on the recipients, contexts, and places that hold attention in global health. Embodying the view of the “outsider within”, Abimbola explains to readers that he is in the world of global health but not of it and is “swimming without being touched by water”. He brings a critical lens to the foreign gaze in global health, which he argues is rooted in colonialism, and scrutinises how foreign observers have shaped global health through the way they act “at a distance.”