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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rudrum, Sarah, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Childbirth--Uganda--Amuru District.

Childbirth.

Maternal health services--Uganda--Amuru District.

Maternal health services.

Medical assistance--Uganda--Amuru District.

Medical assistance.

Public health--International cooperation.

Public health.

War and society--Uganda--Amuru District.

War and society.

World health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2022]

Summary:

"The accounts of women navigating pregnancy in a post-conflict setting are characterized by widespread poverty, weak infrastructure, and inadequate health services. In investigating maternity care and birth, Global Health and The Village examines a remote rural agrarian region of northern Uganda, a region characterized by a weak healthcare system in the aftermath of decades long armed conflict. Drawing on extensive original qualitative research, Global Health and The Village brings the complex local and transnational factors governing women's access to safe maternity care into focus. As well as examining local cultural, social, economic, and health system factors shaping maternity care and birth, Rudrum analyzes the encounter between ambitious global health goals and the local realities of a remote, agrarian, post-conflict community with poor health services. Interrogating how culture and technical problems are framed in international health interventions, it becomes clear that the objectifying and colonizing premises on which interventions are based mean that rather than being 'unanticipated,' the negative consequences that too often result from international interventions in health are structurally determined."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

Glossary of Terms

1 Introduction to a Crisis in Maternal Health

2 Ongoing Social Distress: Care Seeking in a Remote Post-conflict Context

3 Pregnancy and Daily Life: Health System and Home Factors Shaping Care

4 Charity and Control: When Help Requires Compliance

5 Vertical Health: Failures of Compulsory Couples' HIV Testing

6 Conclusions: Reconceiving the Maternal Health Crisis

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4875-3043-9

1-4875-3042-0

OCLC:

1263186875