Religion in Global Health and Development : : the case of twentieth-century Ghana / / Benjamin Bronnert Walker.

In Religion in Global Health and Development Benjamin Walker shows how the religious features of colonial state architecture were still operating by the twenty-first century. Uncovering where religion and global health have connected across the twentieth century and focusing on Ghana provides an opp...

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Place / Publishing House:Montreal : : McGill-Queen's University Press (mqup),, 2022.
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 316 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Half Title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Colonial Foundations of Global Health: Britain, Gold Coast, and Ghana, 1919-61
  • 2 Religion and Africanising Health: Ghana, 1957-68
  • 3 Reframing Postcolonial International Health: Ghana, the Netherlands, and West Germany, 1957-90
  • 4 International Health Campaigns and Christian Mission: Ghana, Europe, and North America, 1950-94 5
  • Primary Health Care, Global Health, and Medical Mission: Ghana, the WHO, and the World Council of Churches, 1960-2000
  • Conclusion: Religion, the Ghanaian State, and the Future of Global Health
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Index.