Global Health and the Village
Transnational Contexts Governing Birth in Northern Uganda
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2021
- Category
- Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Black Studies (Global), Health Care Issues
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781487504557
- Publish Date
- Nov 2021
- List Price
- $53.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781487530433
- Publish Date
- Nov 2021
- List Price
- $53.00
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Description
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.
About the author
Sarah Rudrum is an associate professor of Sociology at Acadia University.