How do professions globalize? Lessons from the Global South in US medical education

Hanrieder, Tine ORCID: 0000-0002-9818-8683 (2019) How do professions globalize? Lessons from the Global South in US medical education. International Political Sociology, 13 (3). 296 - 314. ISSN 1749-5679

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Abstract

This article explores the professional construction of the space of Global Health. I argue that the growth of Global Health as a field of practice does not merely indicate an intensification of North-South intervention. It is also a professional project of reimporting lessons from the South to countries in the North. I focus on the emerging didactic regime for Global Health in US medical education and the deterritorialized "global" lessons that students are taught in poor countries. By rescaling these lessons to precarious settings at home, the space of Global Health is reterritorialized as a Global Medical South stretching into the United States, reinforcing the perception that health is not a right but a privilege. The analysis is based on a content analysis of university websites and didactic handbooks and a sample of sixty-four articles evaluating the education effects of study abroad experiences. It reveals an emerging canon of Global Health virtues and the construction of domestic scales for Global Health practices, which are based on ethnic and socioeconomic categories. This analysis of professional projects as spatial projects sheds new light on the geography of Global Health and of professional globalization more generally.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://academic.oup.com/ips
Additional Information:	© 2019 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
Date Deposited:	01 Oct 2020 12:57
Last Modified:	20 Dec 2024 00:40
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/106683

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