What stood out to me while reading this text was the way that Dixon made the distinction between global health as a noun and then as a verb. In her distinction between the two, she addresses the way that ‘infrastructural violence’ both passive and active are markers of how the government has failed in their attempts towards ‘progress and development.’
In her use of the midwives as the bridge it was also interesting to see how they exist in a space where they are working with and also against the state. This brings me to the question of how do Dixon’s findings challenge the dichotomy between traditional and biomedical knowledge, and also how does Mexico’s history play into the ‘conditioning’ occurring amongst women in Mexico.