Infographics have become a ubiquitous feature of the contemporary global health landscape, crowding the presentations and exhibition halls of conferences, the pages of annual reports, and the websites of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). For the anthropologist studying global health policy and practice, they are a powerful sensory and aesthetic element of the ethnographic field.
Infographics are the product of data visualization …
Seizing the Means of Reproduction
Entanglements of Feminism, Health and Technoscience
Duke University Press, 2012. 259 pages
In the 1970s throughout the United States and Canada, health emerged as a feminist category around which a set of projects and goals crystallized and then diffused. Michelle Murphy’s book Seizing the Means of Reproduction begins in California with …
Historically, attempts to alter the conditions and cultures of maternity and motherhood have been part of the civilizing projects of colonialism and the modernizing agendas of international development. The goals have varied over time and space — from the prevention of maternal and infant deaths amidst fears of a depleted labour pool, to the prevention of “excessive fertility” amidst fears …
AAA Chicago 2013 Call for Papers: The social lives of biomedical technologies in global health development
Global health development policy and practice has made a noticeable return in recent years to technical and entrepreneurial solutions to world health challenges. This panel will consider the social lives of new and re-purposed biomedical technologies including devices, medicines, and protocols in low resource …