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

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    • Brada, Betsey Behr

Bibliographic Information

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

Betsey Behr Brada

Cornell University Press, 2023

  • : pbk

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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: "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 imaginative practice that hinges on a range of pedagogies"-- Provided by publisher

Contents of Works

  • Introduction : Learning to Save the World
  • Saving Medications vs. Saving Children
  • How to Do Things to Children with Words
  • The Metalanguage of HIV Intervention
  • The Global Health Frontier
  • Experiencing AIDS in Africa : The Anxious Fantasies of
  • American Medicine
  • "We Are All Just Specimens" : Pedagogy as Dispossession
  • Conclusion: Undoing Global Health
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