دانلود کتاب Traversing Transnational Biomedical Landscapes: An Ethnography of the Experiences of Nigerian Trained Physicians Practicing in the US and UK

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Cover\nContents\nList of Abbreviations \n1. Introduction\n 1.1. Worlds apart in a transnational biomedical landscape\n 1.2. Background\n 1.3. Aim and research question\n 1.4. Theoretical implications\n 1.5. Outline of the book\n2. Methodological Musings\n 2.1. Introduction\n 2.2. (Rethinking) the field: The US, the UK and Nigeria; or where is this research “local”?\n 2.3. An overview of the sample and fieldwork periods\n 2.4. Ethnographic research and the challenges of studying “up, down or sideways”\n 2.5. (Critically) analyzing data\n 2.6. Conclusion\n3. The Emerging Nigerian Biomedical Landscape and Trajectories of Becoming a Doctor\n 3.1. Introduction\n 3.2. Biomedicine in Nigeria: An emerging landscape\n 3.3. Becoming a doctor: Professional trajectories in Nigeria\n 3.3.1. A question of class and regional origin? Who takes the medical path and why\n 3.3.2. Life as a medical student in Nigeria\n 3.3.3. Studying and working in times of austerity: Embodying medicine under political and economic constraints\n 3.3.4. Moving to the hospital setting: Frictions between medical imaginaries and clinical realities\n 3.4. Practicing medicine in Nigeria: Trajectories in the face of moral dilemmas\n 3.5. Conclusion\n4. Going Global\n 4.1. Introduction\n 4.2. Beyond push and pull: Frictions and connectivities in skilled migration\n 4.3. Migration regimes in the US and the UK and ‘migratory cultural capital’\n 4.4. Three cases: Transnational biographies at and of work\n 4.4.1. Dr. Erioluwa: A pioneer of transnational Nigerian physicians\n 4.4.2. Mr. Akomolafe: Leaving in the 1990s for the UK\n 4.4.3. Dr. Banjoko: Migration in the new millennium\n 4.5. Differentiating super‐diverse skilled migration: Frictions and connectivities in the (re)configuration of identities\n 4.5.1. Super‐diversity in migration\n 4.5.2. Changing identities in transnational professional spaces\n 4.6. Conclusion\n5. Female Nigerian Physicians\n 5.1. Introduction\n 5.2. Out of sight, but not in the margins: Gender in highly skilled migration\n 5.3. Being a female physician in Nigeria\n 5.4. The diverse influence of gender on female physician migration: Three cases\n 5.4.1. Dr. Odara\n 5.4.2. Dr. Adaeze\n 5.4.3. Dr. Ebuka\n 5.5. Combining work and family responsibilities\n 5.6. Discrimination in gendered physician migration\n 5.6.1. The gendered experience of discrimination in and outside the clinic\n 5.6.2. “If you’re both, it’s a lot”: Double discrimination and professional identity\n 5.7. Conclusion\n6. Practicing in a Transnational Biomedical Landscape\n 6.1. Introduction\n 6.2. Biomedicines as local cultural systems of knowledge and practice\n 6.3. Disconnecting from and connecting to local biomedical contexts: physicians’ perceptions\n 6.4. Adapting to biomedicine in the ‘global North’\n 6.4.1. Adapting to structural differences\n 6.4.2. Cultural adaptations to the social side of practicing biomedicine\n 6.5. Lost in translation: Variations in medical language\n 6.6. State‐of-the‐art or the art of medicine? Clinical skills and differing understandings of what medicine is\n 6.7. Practicing defensive and wasteful medicine\n 6.8. Conclusion\n7. Between Moral Dilemmas and Logistics\n 7.1. Introduction\n 7.2. Therapy management networks and transnational care across biomedical landscapes\n 7.3. Moral dilemmas: Migrating doctors’ double role in transnational therapy networks\n 7.4. The routine and logistics of caring for relatives back home\n 7.5. Transnational care in times of crisis\n 7.5.1. The case of Dr. Chukwu’s father: A broken hip and a transnational search for immediate and adequate care\n 7.5.2. The case of Dr. Emeka’s mother: Medical travel and the remorse of (im)mobility\n 7.5.3. The case of Dr. Dike’s brother: Stroke and diverging perceptions of treatment\n 7.6. Connecting the sites and variations of care: (medical) remittances in transnational medicoscapes\n 7.7. Conclusion\n8. Giving Back\n 8.1. Introduction\n 8.2. Voluntourism among migrated medical professionals and medical remittances as a transformation and projectification of health care provision\n 8.3. “Making bridges” through geoprofessional organizations\n 8.4. Making sense of medical missions: Layers of connectivities in temporarily overlapping local biomedical landscapes\n 8.4.1. Two versions of a mission day\n 8.4.2. Medical missions attached to home associations: Dr. Chijoke’s and Dr. Osinachi’s experiences\n 8.4.3. Dis/connectivity in a transnational biomedical landscape of medical missions\n 8.5. “Assuaging guilt” or “engineering change”? Physicians’ viewpoints on the transformative agency of joint and individual efforts to give back\n 8.6. Sustainable change: Skill transfer as a lesson learned from medical missions\n 8.6.1. Dr. Adisa’s case: Remitting pathology knowledge through (virtual) workshops\n 8.6.2. Dr. Adanna’s case: Attempting to transform pain management\n 8.6.3. Skill transfer – a means to transform the local biomedical landscape?\n 8.7. Skill transfer to the private sector: a chance for change or for profit?\n 8.8. Conclusion\n9. Conclusion\nBibliography\nAcknowledgements