Medicine in the Meantime: The Work of Care in Mozambique (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)

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In Mozambique, where more than half of the national health care budget comes from foreign donors, NGOs and global health research projects have facilitated a dramatic expansion of medical products and services. Directly temporary and unfolding over decades, these projects also enact deeply divergent understandings of what care means and who does it. In Medicine within the Meantime, Ramah McKay follows two medical projects in Mozambique in the course of the daily lives of patients and health care providers, showing how transnational medical resources and infrastructures give upward push to diverse possibilities for work and care amid constraint. Paying careful attention to the precise postcolonial and postsocialist context of Mozambique, McKay considers how the presence of NGOs and the governing logics of the worldwide health economy have transformed the family members—between and inside bodies, medical technologies, friends, kin, and organizations—that care requires and how such transformations pose new challenges for ethnographic analysis and critique.
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