Megan D Cogburn
Biographic Data
| ID | 145393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan D Cogburn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan D |
| FAMILY NAME | Cogburn |
| SIGNATURE | COGBURN M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7022-303X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“The pain is not real, it's feki”
Pain always begs a response, yet biomedical providers everywhere struggle with how to know and respond to pain. Based on collaborative ethnographic work in a Tanzanian hospital, we explore healthcare workers’ sociocultural perceptions of pain and pain care practices to show how pain is recognized and distinguished in the busy clinical setting. Influenced by the socially productive nature and potential of fakes, we present the category of feki pai…
Waiting in a Place of Impossible Demands
Today in rural Tanzania, nurses instruct pregnant women to go to maternity waiting homes (MWH), spaces of surveillance-care, long before due dates. Envisioned as a place for risk in policies of global safe motherhood, ethnography shows how the MWH becomes a place of risk to pregnant women and nurses. Negotiations at the MWH show how surveillance-care can be used to control and reinforce hierarchies - inadvertently creating risk - but also, in sur…
Pain Management
Anthropology has long engaged in explorations of pain as part of the human condition. Sociocultural values and norms shape expressions and understandings of pain, as well as pain management practices globally. Here, we focus on physical pain to highlight the intersections of race, gender, class, and position in the global neoliberal economy as major themes in shaping attitudes toward pain and accessibility of pain management. Pain is always inter…
We Only Escort Women to the Health Facility
Global health regimes have reversed the role of traditional birth attendants (TBAs) from partners in the fight against maternal and child mortality to barriers to indicator-driven care. In rural Tanzania, widespread fear of government surveillance and punishment for non-compliant individuals and organizations that climaxed during the presidency of the late John Magufuli (2015-2021) put increased pressure on TBAs. To negotiate tensions, TBAs adopt…
Homebirth fines and health cards in rural Tanzania
The silencing of political context in health research in Ethiopia
In 2004, the Ethiopian government launched what has been called an innovative and groundbreaking solution to the country's public health challenges; the Health Extension Programme (HEP). The positive public health outcomes that have been reported following the implementation of the HEP have led researchers and global health actors to propose it as a model for other countries to emulate. In this systematic review, we point to a potential weakness …
Homebirth fines and health cards in rural Tanzania
The silencing of political context in health research in Ethiopia
In 2004, the Ethiopian government launched what has been called an innovative and groundbreaking solution to the country's public health challenges; the Health Extension Programme (HEP). The positive public health outcomes that have been reported following the implementation of the HEP have led researchers and global health actors to propose it as a model for other countries to emulate. In this systematic review, we point to a potential weakness …
Waiting in a Place of Impossible Demands
Today in rural Tanzania, nurses instruct pregnant women to go to maternity waiting homes (MWH), spaces of surveillance-care, long before due dates. Envisioned as a place for risk in policies of global safe motherhood, ethnography shows how the MWH becomes a place of risk to pregnant women and nurses. Negotiations at the MWH show how surveillance-care can be used to control and reinforce hierarchies - inadvertently creating risk - but also, in sur…
The silencing of political context in health research in Ethiopia
In 2004, the Ethiopian government launched what has been called an innovative and groundbreaking solution to the country's public health challenges; the Health Extension Programme (HEP). The positive public health outcomes that have been reported following the implementation of the HEP have led researchers and global health actors to propose it as a model for other countries to emulate. In this systematic review, we point to a potential weakness …
Homebirth fines and health cards in rural Tanzania
Waiting in a Place of Impossible Demands
Today in rural Tanzania, nurses instruct pregnant women to go to maternity waiting homes (MWH), spaces of surveillance-care, long before due dates. Envisioned as a place for risk in policies of global safe motherhood, ethnography shows how the MWH becomes a place of risk to pregnant women and nurses. Negotiations at the MWH show how surveillance-care can be used to control and reinforce hierarchies - inadvertently creating risk - but also, in sur…
Pain Management
Anthropology has long engaged in explorations of pain as part of the human condition. Sociocultural values and norms shape expressions and understandings of pain, as well as pain management practices globally. Here, we focus on physical pain to highlight the intersections of race, gender, class, and position in the global neoliberal economy as major themes in shaping attitudes toward pain and accessibility of pain management. Pain is always inter…
We Only Escort Women to the Health Facility
Global health regimes have reversed the role of traditional birth attendants (TBAs) from partners in the fight against maternal and child mortality to barriers to indicator-driven care. In rural Tanzania, widespread fear of government surveillance and punishment for non-compliant individuals and organizations that climaxed during the presidency of the late John Magufuli (2015-2021) put increased pressure on TBAs. To negotiate tensions, TBAs adopt…
“The pain is not real, it's feki”
Pain always begs a response, yet biomedical providers everywhere struggle with how to know and respond to pain. Based on collaborative ethnographic work in a Tanzanian hospital, we explore healthcare workers’ sociocultural perceptions of pain and pain care practices to show how pain is recognized and distinguished in the busy clinical setting. Influenced by the socially productive nature and potential of fakes, we present the category of feki pai…
Health care (5 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Socioeconomics (3 works) · Tanzania (3 works) · Context (archaeology) (2 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (2 works)