Learning to save the world : global health pedagogies and fantasies of transformation in Botswana /

"Using data from southeastern Botswana, efforts to educate HIV-positive children about their treatment are contrasted with global health rotations for American medical students in order to demonstrate that 'global health' is not a set of problems or institutions, but rather an imagina...

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1. Verfasser: Brada, Betsey Behr, 1976- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023.
Online-Zugang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv2f4vr0b
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction : Learning to save the world
  • Part 1. Scaling the epidemic. Saving medications versus saving children
  • How to do things to children with words
  • The metalanguage of HIV intervention
  • Part 2. Fantasies of transformation. The global health frontier
  • Experiencing AIDS in Africa
  • Pedagogy as dispossession
  • Conclusion: Undoing global health.