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Author Brada, Betsey Behr, 1976- author

Title Learning to save the world : global health pedagogies and fantasies of transformation in Botswana / Betsey Behr Brada
Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023
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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 254 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents 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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject AIDS (Disease) -- Treatment -- Social aspects -- Botswana
AIDS (Disease) in children -- Social aspects -- Botswana
Medical anthropology -- Botswana
Public health -- Anthropological aspects -- Botswana
Medical education -- Social aspects -- Botswana
Health education -- Social aspects -- Botswana
Transcultural medical care -- Botswana
World health -- Social aspects
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical
AIDS (Disease) in children -- Social aspects
Health education -- Social aspects
Medical anthropology
Medical education -- Social aspects
Public health -- Anthropological aspects
Transcultural medical care
World health -- Social aspects
Botswana.
United States of America, USA.
Social & cultural history.
Ethnic studies.
Anthropology.
Health and Wellbeing.
Botswana
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022020481
ISBN 9781501762444
1501762443
9781501762437
1501762435