McKay Ramah McKay

Medicine in the Meantime (eBook, PDF)

The Work of Care in Mozambique

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Produktbeschreibung

In Mozambique, where more than half of the national health care budget comes from foreign donors, NGOs and global health research projects have facilitated a dramatic expansion of medical services. At once temporary and unfolding over decades, these projects also enact deeply divergent understandings of what care means and who does it. In Medicine in the Meantime, Ramah McKay follows two medical projects in Mozambique through the day-to-day lives of patients and health care providers, showing how transnational medical resources and infrastructures give rise to diverse possibilities for work and care amid constraint. Paying careful attention to the specific postcolonial and postsocialist context of Mozambique, McKay considers how the presence of NGOs and the governing logics of the global health economy have transformed the relations-between and within bodies, medical technologies, friends, kin, and organizations-that care requires and how such transformations pose new challenges for ethnographic analysis and critique.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822372196
• Artikelnr.: 54670550

Autorenporträt

Ramah McKay is Assistant Professor of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Care and the Work of History  1
1. Governing Multiplicities  29
2. Making Communities of Care  57
3. Afterlives: Food, Time, and History  88
4. Nourishing Relations  112
5. The Work of Health in the Public Sector  142
6. Paperwork: Capacities of Data and Care  167
Afterword. Critique and Caring Futures  192
Notes  199
Works Cited  217
Index  237