{"title":"Tallying Abandonment in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: Consequences of Counting in the Afterlife of Aid.","authors":"Stephanie Peel","doi":"10.1080/01459740.2023.2198709","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork from one rural area in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, in this article I trace Community Health Workers' sentiments of abandonment, which they expressed after the termination of an internationally funded global health program. The program's open inclusion criteria meant that many children were enrolled during its implementation, signifying its success. However, after the program ended, the enumeration of many children produced residual feelings of abandonment. Grounded in a historical context, I illuminate the specific consequences of counting social lives and the ways in which global health programs and their practices continue to have a phantom presence after they end.</p>","PeriodicalId":47460,"journal":{"name":"Medical Anthropology","volume":"42 5","pages":"506-520"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5000,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Medical Anthropology","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2023.2198709","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ANTHROPOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork from one rural area in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, in this article I trace Community Health Workers' sentiments of abandonment, which they expressed after the termination of an internationally funded global health program. The program's open inclusion criteria meant that many children were enrolled during its implementation, signifying its success. However, after the program ended, the enumeration of many children produced residual feelings of abandonment. Grounded in a historical context, I illuminate the specific consequences of counting social lives and the ways in which global health programs and their practices continue to have a phantom presence after they end.
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Medical Anthropology provides a global forum for scholarly articles on the social patterns of ill-health and disease transmission, and experiences of and knowledge about health, illness and wellbeing. These include the nature, organization and movement of peoples, technologies and treatments, and how inequalities pattern access to these. Articles published in the journal showcase the theoretical sophistication, methodological soundness and ethnographic richness of contemporary medical anthropology. Through the publication of empirical articles and editorials, we encourage our authors and readers to engage critically with the key debates of our time. Medical Anthropology invites manuscripts on a wide range of topics, reflecting the diversity and the expanding interests and concerns of researchers in the field.
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