“Not Here”: Making the Spaces and Subjects of “Global Health” in Botswana

• Published in: Culture, medicine and psychiatry Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 285 - 312
• Main Author: Brada, Betsey
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston Springer US 01.06.2011; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: 21st century; Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - epidemiology; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - therapy; AIDS; Anthropologists; Anthropology; Anthropology, Cultural - education; Botswana; Clinical Psychology; Conflict of Interest; Cultural anthropology; Cultural Competency; Culture; Curriculum; Deixis; Delivery of Health Care - organization & administration; Developing Countries; Education, Medical; Ethics; Ethnography; Experts; Globalization; Health; Health care; Health Care Services; Health disparities; Health Resources - organization & administration; Health services; Health Services Needs and Demand - organization & administration; HIV; HIV Infections - epidemiology; HIV Infections - therapy; Hospitals; Human immunodeficiency virus; Humans; Internationality; Intervention; Language; Medical anthropology; Medical education; Medical personnel; Medical schools; Medicine; Morals; Original Paper; Physician's Role; Professional Competence; Professional education; Psychiatry; Public Health; Public sector private sector relations; Public-Private Sector Partnerships - organization & administration; Quality of Health Care - organization & administration; Schools; Science; Social Sciences; Sociology; Space; Space and time; Students; Threat; Treatment methods; Verbal aggression; Botswana; United States > US; Nepal; Medical education; Global health; Chronotope; Botswana

This essay argues that what makes “global health” “global” has more to do with configurations of space and time, and the claims to expertise and moral stances these configurations make possible, than with the geographical distribution of medical experts or the universal, if also uneven, distribution...