...The introduction frames the inquiry in this ethnography around the question of what we can learn about global health when our intimate connections to our own actions become the locus of inquiry. I argue that visceral ethics, the idea that one uses gut feelings to validate the ethical nature of our...

... lives is profoundly personal, derived from sensibilities toward kin and personal understandings of race. Simultaneously, this inquiry opens a deeper exploration of the forces that shape global health action and, thereby the global health domain itself. The dominant narrative emphasizing a volunteer’s...

...Chapters 4 looks at the importance of context in judging the moral nature of an action. We examine the experiences of one global health volunteer across decades. A long-term view of actions taken enables us to see the outcomes of actions and to highlight the key role of context to deciding...

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...Chapter 1 explores how North America volunteers have come to view short-term medical missions as a favored global health opportunity. The chapter considers three major transformations that have occurred over the last two decades that have made STMMs available and appealing to volunteers...

...The argument that visceral ethics demonstrates that affect plays a generative role in contemporary global health is synthesized. A knock-off effect of visceral ethics is that we are soothed into believing our actions are good and therefore disregard the due diligence necessary to be certain...

...Visceral Ethics is an engaging ethnography that pushes our understandings of global health in new directions. Drawing on fieldwork in Guatemala, it focuses on North Americans who volunteer in short-term medical missions and is the first ethnography that brings us into the world...

..., and intersectionality) to critically evaluate public and global health programming in HIV prevention to date. She highlights how heterosexually-active men have been overlooked in behavioral HIV prevention programming both domestically and globally. The book also centrally challenges common notions of gendered...