J Wintrup
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5691 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J Wintrup |
| NOMBRES | J |
| APELLIDO | Wintrup |
| FIRMA | WINTRUP J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0316-5623 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Reverence for suffering
Over the past few decades, it has become common for medical anthropologists to provide vivid and graphic descriptions of bodily suffering in their work. In this commentary, the author offers some critical reflections on this mode of writing. Emerging from the author's response to the descriptions of bodily suffering contained in Amy Moran-Thomas's recent book about diabetes, this commentary offers some reasons why medical anthropologists might wa…
Relational Harm
Drawing on ethnographic research at a hospital in rural Zambia, I show how the presence of white Christian medical volunteers from the United States damaged relations between local health workers and patients. Working from a position of economic and racial privilege, medical volunteers received praise from many patients and residents. However, these positive attitudes incited resentment among many Zambian health workers who felt that their own ef…
Health by the people, again? The lost lessons of Alma-Ata in a community health worker programme in Zambia
National community health worker (CHW) programmes were central to the vision of primary health care that emerged from the Alma-Ata declaration of 1978. CHWs were identified as agents who could offer basic medical treatment and promote community participation and empowerment. Despite the ambitions of this era, many national CHW programmes were neglected, starved of funding, or discontinued in the decades that followed. These programmes were diffic…
Ethics, policy, and politics
Promising careers? A critical analysis of a randomised control trial in community health worker recruitment in Zambia
Who alone can 'see'? Christian humanitarianism, aspect-perception and political critique
This article offers a critique of Christian humanitarianism in Zambia. But it does so by engaging with the arguments of anthropologists who have begun to question the status of political critique within the discipline. These anthropologists argue that critique often undermines ethnographic understanding because it problematically positions the anthropologist as an actor who is able to 'uncover' political realities that remain invisible to others.…
Outsourcing sovereignty
Global health organisations are increasingly involved in large-scale health interventions in countries in the Global South, partnering with states to implement programmes to strengthen national health systems and promote Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Drawing on an ethnography of a large-scale global health partnership between the Zambian state and the Clinton Foundation, this paper examines the novel configurations of sovereignty that are crea…
Transcending the Ethical Dilemma of Christian Humanitarianism
After arriving to volunteer at a rural hospital in Zambia, many short-term American missionaries began to doubt whether the Christian character of their work was recognisable to Zambian patients and health professionals. In this article, I argue that these missionary doubts were a result of what Webb Keane has recently called 'the ethical dilemma of humanitarianism', a term he uses to describe the lack of mutual ethical recognition in humanitaria…
Speaking with vampires and angels
During the course of fieldwork at a Christian mission hospital in southern Zambia, I discovered that vernacular healers in the surrounding rural area were being visited by ‘angel spirits’ (bangelo) who offered them efficacious advice on how best to treat the patients under their care. According to the healers who encountered them, these angel spirits physically resembled white people (bakuwa), they dressed in white clothing, and their behaviour w…
Health by the people, again? The lost lessons of Alma-Ata in a community health worker programme in Zambia
National community health worker (CHW) programmes were central to the vision of primary health care that emerged from the Alma-Ata declaration of 1978. CHWs were identified as agents who could offer basic medical treatment and promote community participation and empowerment. Despite the ambitions of this era, many national CHW programmes were neglected, starved of funding, or discontinued in the decades that followed. These programmes were diffic…
Promising careers? A critical analysis of a randomised control trial in community health worker recruitment in Zambia
Transcending the Ethical Dilemma of Christian Humanitarianism
After arriving to volunteer at a rural hospital in Zambia, many short-term American missionaries began to doubt whether the Christian character of their work was recognisable to Zambian patients and health professionals. In this article, I argue that these missionary doubts were a result of what Webb Keane has recently called 'the ethical dilemma of humanitarianism', a term he uses to describe the lack of mutual ethical recognition in humanitaria…
Who alone can 'see'? Christian humanitarianism, aspect-perception and political critique
This article offers a critique of Christian humanitarianism in Zambia. But it does so by engaging with the arguments of anthropologists who have begun to question the status of political critique within the discipline. These anthropologists argue that critique often undermines ethnographic understanding because it problematically positions the anthropologist as an actor who is able to 'uncover' political realities that remain invisible to others.…
Speaking with vampires and angels
During the course of fieldwork at a Christian mission hospital in southern Zambia, I discovered that vernacular healers in the surrounding rural area were being visited by ‘angel spirits’ (bangelo) who offered them efficacious advice on how best to treat the patients under their care. According to the healers who encountered them, these angel spirits physically resembled white people (bakuwa), they dressed in white clothing, and their behaviour w…
Speaking with vampires and angels
During the course of fieldwork at a Christian mission hospital in southern Zambia, I discovered that vernacular healers in the surrounding rural area were being visited by ‘angel spirits’ (bangelo) who offered them efficacious advice on how best to treat the patients under their care. According to the healers who encountered them, these angel spirits physically resembled white people (bakuwa), they dressed in white clothing, and their behaviour w…
Outsourcing sovereignty
Global health organisations are increasingly involved in large-scale health interventions in countries in the Global South, partnering with states to implement programmes to strengthen national health systems and promote Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Drawing on an ethnography of a large-scale global health partnership between the Zambian state and the Clinton Foundation, this paper examines the novel configurations of sovereignty that are crea…
Transcending the Ethical Dilemma of Christian Humanitarianism
After arriving to volunteer at a rural hospital in Zambia, many short-term American missionaries began to doubt whether the Christian character of their work was recognisable to Zambian patients and health professionals. In this article, I argue that these missionary doubts were a result of what Webb Keane has recently called 'the ethical dilemma of humanitarianism', a term he uses to describe the lack of mutual ethical recognition in humanitaria…
Ethics, policy, and politics
Promising careers? A critical analysis of a randomised control trial in community health worker recruitment in Zambia
Who alone can 'see'? Christian humanitarianism, aspect-perception and political critique
This article offers a critique of Christian humanitarianism in Zambia. But it does so by engaging with the arguments of anthropologists who have begun to question the status of political critique within the discipline. These anthropologists argue that critique often undermines ethnographic understanding because it problematically positions the anthropologist as an actor who is able to 'uncover' political realities that remain invisible to others.…
Health by the people, again? The lost lessons of Alma-Ata in a community health worker programme in Zambia
National community health worker (CHW) programmes were central to the vision of primary health care that emerged from the Alma-Ata declaration of 1978. CHWs were identified as agents who could offer basic medical treatment and promote community participation and empowerment. Despite the ambitions of this era, many national CHW programmes were neglected, starved of funding, or discontinued in the decades that followed. These programmes were diffic…
Relational Harm
Drawing on ethnographic research at a hospital in rural Zambia, I show how the presence of white Christian medical volunteers from the United States damaged relations between local health workers and patients. Working from a position of economic and racial privilege, medical volunteers received praise from many patients and residents. However, these positive attitudes incited resentment among many Zambian health workers who felt that their own ef…
Reverence for suffering
Over the past few decades, it has become common for medical anthropologists to provide vivid and graphic descriptions of bodily suffering in their work. In this commentary, the author offers some critical reflections on this mode of writing. Emerging from the author's response to the descriptions of bodily suffering contained in Amy Moran-Thomas's recent book about diabetes, this commentary offers some reasons why medical anthropologists might wa…
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