ABSTRACT
Drawing upon ethnographic observations of interactions among the staff of a large hospital in southern Africa and visiting American clinicians and trainees, this chapter sheds light on the production and dismantling of global health as a pedagogic object. The rise to prominence of global health as a key pedagogical object in contemporary US medical training over the past two decades cannot be overstated. For American educators and students alike, the most important facet of short-term global health rotations went beyond the acquisition of technical skill or manual dexterity. The chapter gives an examination of Botswana, and its HIV epidemic in particular, as a site of global health. It demonstrates the ways in which Eastern University Medical School (EUMS) visitors made global health apparent to one another at Referral Hospital and examines the ways in which Referral Hospital's features were taken as epitomes of larger scale phenomenon.
