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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• VerfasserIn: Rudrum, Sarah,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (184 p.) :; 3 b&w illustrations

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.

Table of 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