How do professions globalize? Lessons from the Global South in US medical education

This article explores the professional construction of the space of Global Health. I argue that the growth of Global Health as a field of practice does not merely indicate an intensification of North-South intervention. It is also a professional project of reimporting lessons from the South to countries in the North. I focus on the emerging didactic regime for Global Health in US medical education and the deterritorialized "global" lessons that students are taught in poor countries. By rescaling these lessons to precarious settings at home, the space of Global Health is reterritorialized as a Global Medical South stretching into the United States, reinforcing the perception that health is not a right but a privilege. The analysis is based on a content analysis of university websites and didactic handbooks and a sample of sixty-four articles evaluating the education effects of study abroad experiences. It reveals an emerging canon of Global Health virtues and the construction of domestic scales for Global Health practices, which are based on ethnic and socioeconomic categories. This analysis of professional projects as spatial projects sheds new light on the geography of Global Health and of professional globalization more generally

Article productivity among the faculty of criminology and criminal justice doctoral programs, 2000-2005.

One important dimension of the quality of a graduate program is the quality of its faculty. Previous assessments of the publication productivity of criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) faculties have been needlessly incomplete and narrow, reflecting publications only in a small number of CCJ journals. Assessments covering only CCJ journals fail to reflect the multidisciplinary nature of CCJ and bias results against programs whose most productive scholars publish in non-CCJ journals. The present research covers the full array of major journals in which CCJ-related research appears, by searching for articles using the multidisciplinary Web of Science database, as well as the Criminal Justice Periodical Index database. This broader approach yields substantially different results than those obtained in recent work that confined article counts to a few CCJ journals. Although the faculty of CCJ programs overwhelmingly focus their published scholarship on CCJ-related topics, they publish most of it outside the few CCJ journals covered in past assessments. The more inclusive approach indicates that the most productive faculties of a CCJ doctoral program are those of the University of Cincinnati and the University of Florida; the latter ranked only 16th in a recent (2002) study based solely on CCJ journals