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Social Science Gender Studies

Global Health and the Village

Transnational Contexts Governing Birth in Northern Uganda

by (author) Sarah Rudrum

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2021
Category
Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Black Studies (Global), Health Care Issues
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781487504557
    Publish Date
    Nov 2021
    List Price
    $53.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487530433
    Publish Date
    Nov 2021
    List Price
    $53.00

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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.

About the author

Sarah Rudrum is an associate professor of Sociology at Acadia University.

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