{"product_id":"learning-to-save-the-world-9781501762420","title":"Learning to Save the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLearning to Save the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e provides an innovative analysis of how individuals inhabit, refuse, and reconfigure the contours of global health.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2001, Botswana''s government, faced with one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the world, committed itself to sub-Saharan Africa''s first free public HIV treatment program. US-based private foundations and medical schools offered support to demonstrate the feasibility of public HIV treatment in Africa. Given US interest and investment in global health, this support created opportunities for US physicians and medical trainees to interact with local practitioners, treat patients, and shape health policy in Botswana.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough global health has emerged as a powerful call to planetary moral action, the nature of this exhortation remains unclear. Is global health a new movement for social justice, or is it neocolonial, creating new dependencies under the banner of humanitarianism? Betsey Behr Brada shows that\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany researchers and urban policy professionals will find something of interest here.[T]his collection contains multiple insights that professionals will find useful and interesting.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Learning to Save the World\u003cbr\u003e 1. Saving Medication vs. Saving Children\u003cbr\u003e 2. How to Do Things to Children with Words\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Metalanguage of HIV Intervention\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Global Health Frontier\u003cbr\u003e 5. Experiencing AIDS in Africa: The Anxious Fantasies of American Medicine\u003cbr\u003e 6. \"We Are All Just Specimens\": Pedagogy as Dispossession\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Undoing Global Health\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867346612567,"sku":"9781501762420","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501762420.jpg?v=1722282905","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/learning-to-save-the-world-9781501762420","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}