ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the examples of key global NGOs to articulate the linkage between transnational capitalism and civil society and to interrogate the emergence of health as a commodity in the landscape of neoliberal interventionism. NGOs have been essential to the efforts of democracy promotion that ironically have formed the bedrock of these violent interventions, creating new grounds for remaking societies in mirror images of the empire and its capitalist imaginations. Health is tied to democratic possibilities as constrained within the framework of the market, understood through the lens of the market. Democracy serves as a trope for neutralizing the market and for making it essential to the organizing of health care. Moreover, the commoditization of health through the framework of the market privileges technological solutions to health. Health emerges in the form of specific portfolios and projects to be handled by program managers and project leads, with definite starting and ending points that are connected to project evaluation.
