scholarly journals Introduction

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramah McKay ◽  
Cal (Crystal) Biruk
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
Special Section ◽  
International Health ◽  
Health Practice ◽  
Health Studies ◽  
Key Sites ◽  
Anthropological Critique

As an emerging subfield of medical anthropology with roots in histories and geographies of colonial and international health, critical global health studies reflects both changing modes of health practice and the centering of critique as a core anthropological endeavor. This special section seeks to analyze and reflect on the meanings, valences, affects, and entailments of anthropological critique, taking the rise of global health and flourishing of global health ethnography as key sites of investigation. Each of the contributing pieces is oriented around a global health object or technology.

scholarly journals Soap

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cal (Crystal) Biruk
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
International Health ◽  
Global South ◽  
Feminist Science Studies ◽  
Feminist Science ◽  
The Core ◽  
Disciplinary Practice ◽  
Health Studies

Anthropology has long grappled with the politics of critique. In critical global health studies, an emerging subfield of medical anthropology with roots in histories and geographies of colonial and international health, ethnographers negotiate relations and transactions in the field that pivot around boundaries at the core of our disciplinary practice: inside/outside, critique/complicity, theoretical/applied. Yet, while critique is a primary endeavor of the anthropologist, few have explicitly analyzed or reflected on its meanings, valences, affects, and entailments, particularly amid the rise of global health and the NGOization of the global South that inflects much of our work. In this essay, I reflect on the state of critique in critical global health studies, sketching its gestures, rhetoric, and intentions. Then, I trace some of the journeys of the bar of soap pictured below, an object that touched me in many senses of the term by intersecting, facilitating, and holding my anthropological interest for over a decade. Finally, drawing on recent feminist science studies scholarship, I suggest that critique, as entangled and entangling practice, is a form of care that might productively reframe anthropologists’ normative aspirations to ‘usefulness’ or ‘relevance’.

scholarly journals Multi-level health governance and health diplomacy

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-92
Author(s):  
Ana B. Amaya ◽  
Philippe De Lombaerde
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Special Section ◽  
International Health ◽  
Global Health Governance ◽  
African Union ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Health Governance ◽  
Health Diplomacy ◽  
Multi Level

This introduction to the special section explores the nexus between global health governance and international health diplomacy. In these dynamic governance spaces, particular attention is paid to the multi-level and multi-actor character of global health governance and how health diplomacy functions in such a complex context. It is pointed out that the regional level plays both vertical (i.e., as an intermediary between the global and national levels) and horizontal (i.e., interregional) roles. The contributions to the special section develop the conceptual understanding of those interactions and analyze a number of concrete cases, including the African Union, ASEAN, the European Union, SADC, and UNASUR.

scholarly journals A Global Health Partnership's Use of Time-Limited Support to Catalyze Health Practice Change: The Case of GAVI's Injection Safety Support

PLoS ONE ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. e12986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Levin ◽  
Arnold Fang ◽  
Peter M. Hansen ◽  
David Pyle ◽  
Ousmane Dia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Practice Change ◽  
Health Practice ◽  
Use Of Time ◽  
Limited Support ◽  
Injection Safety

scholarly journals The epidemiology of inequity: Will research make a difference?

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Harald Kristian Heggenhougen
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
International Health ◽  
Scientific Conference ◽  
Conference Centre

This article is adapted from the presentation: “Research for Global Health. Can it stem the Tide of Inequity?”, made to the 4th Students' Scientific Conference, Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, 13th of May 2004

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