{"product_id":"good-intentions-in-global-health-medical-missions-emotion-and-health-care-across-borders-hardback-9781479825363","title":"Good Intentions in Global Health; Medical Missions, Emotion, and Health Care Across Borders (Hardback) 9781479825363","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGood Intentions in Global Health\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMedical Missions, Emotion, and Health Care Across Borders\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNicole S. Berry (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781479825363\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 April 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.435 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Critics worry that short-term global health interventions are mostly ineffective, always ephemeral, sometimes harmful, and often illegal. Yet they draw huge numbers of professionals from high-income countries to places with fewer resources. In this provocative book, Nicole S. Berry illuminates a paradox: why the very conditions that trouble critics ensure that 'DIY global health' feels like a moral good to participants.\" (Claire Wendland, University of Wisconsin–Madison) \"Interest in acquiring international health experiences through short-term medical missions and volunteer tourism has led to critical questions about ethics, responsibility, white saviorism, and unintended negative consequences for receiving communities in Global South countries. . . . Berry provides a deep perspective on why people from the Global North see global health work as ethically important work. . . . In this unique and innovative analysis, [she] encourages scholars, practitioners, and students to reflect on their emotions in order to avoid undermining social justice and accountability despite their good intentions.\" (Ananya Tina Banerjee, McGill University)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplores informal global health action and the importance of intentions of those who volunteer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the past two decades, medical missions have gained popularity among medical professionals, who view these excursions as important ethical interventions. Indeed, the notion of giving back by volunteering in rural or impoverished communities is celebrated as an ideal act of selflessness, one whose effects are unquestionably beneficial to those being served.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGood Intentions in Global Health\u003c\/i\u003e is a groundbreaking exploration of the growing realm of informal global health engagement, shedding light on the intricate interplay between intentions, emotions, and ethical considerations. Drawing on fieldwork in Guatemala, Nicole S. Berry investigates those who volunteer for short-term medical missions, revealing how the intent to do good shapes their everyday understandings of their own actions taken in the global health domain.\u003cbr\u003e Berry uncovers how the glorification of medical missions can obscure problems that stem from North American clinicians doctoring in places where they typically do not understand the context. The short-term nature of missions also means that volunteers are not privy to the long-term effects of their actions—the potential harms that may arise from a lack of sustained follow-up care or the utter absence of documentation that they were even there. By relying on gut instincts to reassure themselves that they are doing good, volunteers often bypass a comprehensive assessment of the ethical dimensions underlying their global health work.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGood Intentions in Global Health\u003c\/i\u003e shows why desires and emotions are increasingly important to contemporary global health. She makes the case that we must pay attention to volunteers' perceptions of their work, however wrongheaded or naïve, in order to truly influence global health on the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739552739608,"sku":"9781479825363","price":54.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/good-intentions-in-global-health-medical-missions-emotion-and-health-care-across-borders-hardback-9781479825363","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}