McKay Medicine in the Meantime

The Work of Care in Mozambique
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7219-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McKay, Ramah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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