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Global Health and the Village : Transnational Contexts Governing Birth in Northern Uganda / Sarah Rudrum.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2021]Copyright date: 2021Description: 1 online resource (184 p.) : 3 b&w illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781487504557
  • 9781487530426
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.19820096761 23
LOC classification:
  • RG966.U33 .R837 2022
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Glossary of Terms -- Chapter One. Introduction to a Crisis in Maternal Health -- Chapter Two. Ongoing Social Distress: Care Seeking in a Remote Post-conflict Context -- Chapter Three. Pregnancy and Daily Life: Health System and Home Factors Shaping Care -- Chapter Four. Charity and Control: When Help Requires Compliance -- Chapter Five. Vertical Health: Failures of Compulsory Couples’ HIV Testing -- Chapter Six. Conclusions: Reconceiving the Maternal Health Crisis -- References -- Index
Summary: The accounts of women navigating pregnancy in a post-conflict setting are characterized by widespread poverty, weak infrastructure, and inadequate health services. With a focus on a remote rural agrarian community in northern Uganda, Global Health and the Village brings the complex local and transnational factors governing women’s access to safe maternity care into view. In examining local cultural, social, economic, and health system factors shaping maternity care and birth, Rudrum also analyzes the encounter between ambitious global health goals and the local realities. Interrogating how culture and technical problems are framed in international health interventions, Rudrum reveals that the objectifying and colonizing premises on which interventions are based often result in the negative consequences in local healthcare.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Glossary of Terms -- Chapter One. Introduction to a Crisis in Maternal Health -- Chapter Two. Ongoing Social Distress: Care Seeking in a Remote Post-conflict Context -- Chapter Three. Pregnancy and Daily Life: Health System and Home Factors Shaping Care -- Chapter Four. Charity and Control: When Help Requires Compliance -- Chapter Five. Vertical Health: Failures of Compulsory Couples’ HIV Testing -- Chapter Six. Conclusions: Reconceiving the Maternal Health Crisis -- References -- Index

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The accounts of women navigating pregnancy in a post-conflict setting are characterized by widespread poverty, weak infrastructure, and inadequate health services. With a focus on a remote rural agrarian community in northern Uganda, Global Health and the Village brings the complex local and transnational factors governing women’s access to safe maternity care into view. In examining local cultural, social, economic, and health system factors shaping maternity care and birth, Rudrum also analyzes the encounter between ambitious global health goals and the local realities. Interrogating how culture and technical problems are framed in international health interventions, Rudrum reveals that the objectifying and colonizing premises on which interventions are based often result in the negative consequences in local healthcare.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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