Not in it for huge profits but because it's right
The contested moral economies of UK-India exports in health worker education and training
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2250284 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sibille Merz (0000-0001-9967-6462, Department of International Development King’s College London London UK), Benjamin M Hunter (0000-0002-5848-5245, School of Global Studies University of Sussex Brighton UK), Ramila Bisht (0000-0001-8199-9159, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi India), Susan F Murray (0000-0003-0093-3815, King's College London) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 219-235 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9566.13700 |
| PMID | 37578685 |
| OpenAlex | W4385798512 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 36 |
While the growth of global markets in health-related services may have significant consequences for healthcare provisioning and training, it has received relatively little attention from the social sciences. This article examines UK-India, and specifically England-India, exports in health worker education and training as one such global market, drawing on sociological scholarship on moral economies to understand how trading in this field is constructed and legitimated by the individuals and organisations involved, what tensions evolve, and what is at stake in them. We employ a qualitative mixed methods approach using publicly available materials on existing UK-India collaborations and primary data from interviews with key stakeholders in India and the UK, including government departments, arms-length bodies, NHS Trusts, trade associations and private providers. Our analysis illustrates the key discursive strategies used to legitimate engagement in these markets, and the complex and contested moral economies unfolding between and across these stakeholders and contexts. Not least, we demonstrate the conflicting moral sentiments and the boundary work required to realise commodification. Situating cross-border trade in health worker education and training in a moral economy framework thus illuminates the social context and moral worlds in which this evolving trade is embedded
Commodification · Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Government (linguistics · Moral economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Scholarship · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Global Health Workforce Issues · Law · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |