Ramah Mckay
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 108892 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ramah Mckay |
| NOMBRES | Ramah |
| APELLIDO | Mckay |
| FIRMA | MCKAY R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0577-4171 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 87 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Essentialising medicines
Digital technologies used to make pharmaceuticals trustworthy promise to displace historical relations, offering instead transparency through data. This article draws from research with manufacturers, importers, and distributors moving medicines between factories and markets to explore trust-making and trustworthiness in pharmaceutical sales. It shows how practices of selling and regulating pharmaceuticals rely on narratives and technologies of s…
On an Empty Stomach
Global health's durable dreams
Tracing the persistence of community health workers (CHWs) as a key category in both global health policy and anthropological representation, this article asks how enduring scholarly investments in CHWs can reveal changing political stakes for both health work and ethnographic research. Amid renewed calls for a focus on health systems and universal health coverage, the article suggests that the durability of attention to CHWs is instructive. It s…
Critical convergences
Thinking through two objects - a focus group and a photograph - this essay suggests that ethnographic critique is not separate from but constitutive of global health. Social science representations, from data and focus groups to ethnographic descriptions and clinical snapshots, not only analyze, unpack, or depict global health; they also constitute it as a field of intervention and to define certain spaces, particularly clinical ones, as exemplar…
Conditions of life in the city
How do material conditions, urban life strategies, and postcolonial medical infrastructures shape the practices of care available to patients and families in Maputo? How do global health interventions articulate with urban economies, colonial legacies, and gendered relations? Under what conditions is health made available in Mozambique's capital? This article explores these questions through the experiences of one young woman as she moves through…
Four / The Productivity of Crisis
The view from the middle
In recent decades, new flows of private and philanthropic capital – including those that fund ‘global health’ interventions – are impacting public health in Mozambique. In addition to transforming possibilities for access to care, these forms of medical investment are also changing experiences of medical labour and the subject positions that medical labour entails; for many public health workers, new opportunities for employment coexist with new …
Ethnography as Political Critique
Ethnography as Political Critique João Biehl and Ramah McKay In a splintered world, we must address the splinters. -Clifford Geertz (2000:221) In his essay "The World in Pieces," Clifford Geertz (2000) wrote that a much more pluralistic politics seemed to be emerging in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, and through the rise of borderless capitalism, the growth of technology and the mobility of people, and the emergence of new centers …
Documentary disorders
What do attempts at documentary standardization in a clinic in Maputo, Mozambique, reveal about transnational medical governance? By following medical and bureaucratic practices in an NGO-supported public clinic, I illustrate how documentary practices enact and complicate medical authority in Mozambique. In efforts toward standardization, medical documents are made multiple, simultaneously articulating a range of ethical, bureaucratic, and knowle…
Afterlives
Ethnography as Political Critique
Ethnography as Political Critique João Biehl and Ramah McKay In a splintered world, we must address the splinters. -Clifford Geertz (2000:221) In his essay "The World in Pieces," Clifford Geertz (2000) wrote that a much more pluralistic politics seemed to be emerging in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, and through the rise of borderless capitalism, the growth of technology and the mobility of people, and the emergence of new centers …
Documentary disorders
What do attempts at documentary standardization in a clinic in Maputo, Mozambique, reveal about transnational medical governance? By following medical and bureaucratic practices in an NGO-supported public clinic, I illustrate how documentary practices enact and complicate medical authority in Mozambique. In efforts toward standardization, medical documents are made multiple, simultaneously articulating a range of ethical, bureaucratic, and knowle…
Afterlives
Global health's durable dreams
Tracing the persistence of community health workers (CHWs) as a key category in both global health policy and anthropological representation, this article asks how enduring scholarly investments in CHWs can reveal changing political stakes for both health work and ethnographic research. Amid renewed calls for a focus on health systems and universal health coverage, the article suggests that the durability of attention to CHWs is instructive. It s…
The view from the middle
In recent decades, new flows of private and philanthropic capital – including those that fund ‘global health’ interventions – are impacting public health in Mozambique. In addition to transforming possibilities for access to care, these forms of medical investment are also changing experiences of medical labour and the subject positions that medical labour entails; for many public health workers, new opportunities for employment coexist with new …
Conditions of life in the city
How do material conditions, urban life strategies, and postcolonial medical infrastructures shape the practices of care available to patients and families in Maputo? How do global health interventions articulate with urban economies, colonial legacies, and gendered relations? Under what conditions is health made available in Mozambique's capital? This article explores these questions through the experiences of one young woman as she moves through…
Critical convergences
Thinking through two objects - a focus group and a photograph - this essay suggests that ethnographic critique is not separate from but constitutive of global health. Social science representations, from data and focus groups to ethnographic descriptions and clinical snapshots, not only analyze, unpack, or depict global health; they also constitute it as a field of intervention and to define certain spaces, particularly clinical ones, as exemplar…
Ethnography as Political Critique
Ethnography as Political Critique João Biehl and Ramah McKay In a splintered world, we must address the splinters. -Clifford Geertz (2000:221) In his essay "The World in Pieces," Clifford Geertz (2000) wrote that a much more pluralistic politics seemed to be emerging in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, and through the rise of borderless capitalism, the growth of technology and the mobility of people, and the emergence of new centers …
Documentary disorders
What do attempts at documentary standardization in a clinic in Maputo, Mozambique, reveal about transnational medical governance? By following medical and bureaucratic practices in an NGO-supported public clinic, I illustrate how documentary practices enact and complicate medical authority in Mozambique. In efforts toward standardization, medical documents are made multiple, simultaneously articulating a range of ethical, bureaucratic, and knowle…
Afterlives
The view from the middle
In recent decades, new flows of private and philanthropic capital – including those that fund ‘global health’ interventions – are impacting public health in Mozambique. In addition to transforming possibilities for access to care, these forms of medical investment are also changing experiences of medical labour and the subject positions that medical labour entails; for many public health workers, new opportunities for employment coexist with new …
Four / The Productivity of Crisis
Conditions of life in the city
How do material conditions, urban life strategies, and postcolonial medical infrastructures shape the practices of care available to patients and families in Maputo? How do global health interventions articulate with urban economies, colonial legacies, and gendered relations? Under what conditions is health made available in Mozambique's capital? This article explores these questions through the experiences of one young woman as she moves through…
Critical convergences
Thinking through two objects - a focus group and a photograph - this essay suggests that ethnographic critique is not separate from but constitutive of global health. Social science representations, from data and focus groups to ethnographic descriptions and clinical snapshots, not only analyze, unpack, or depict global health; they also constitute it as a field of intervention and to define certain spaces, particularly clinical ones, as exemplar…
Global health's durable dreams
Tracing the persistence of community health workers (CHWs) as a key category in both global health policy and anthropological representation, this article asks how enduring scholarly investments in CHWs can reveal changing political stakes for both health work and ethnographic research. Amid renewed calls for a focus on health systems and universal health coverage, the article suggests that the durability of attention to CHWs is instructive. It s…
On an Empty Stomach
Essentialising medicines
Digital technologies used to make pharmaceuticals trustworthy promise to displace historical relations, offering instead transparency through data. This article draws from research with manufacturers, importers, and distributors moving medicines between factories and markets to explore trust-making and trustworthiness in pharmaceutical sales. It shows how practices of selling and regulating pharmaceuticals rely on narratives and technologies of s…
Law (8 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 obras) · Global Health and Surgery (4 obras) · Health care (4 obras) · Public relations (4 obras) · Ethnography (3 obras) · Gender Studies (3 obras)