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Global Health and the Village: Transnational Contexts Governing Birth in Northern Uganda

Global Health and the Village: Transnational Contexts Governing Birth in Northern Uganda

Rudrum, Sarah

Hardcover

Health GeneralGeneral Gender StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1487504551
ISBN13: 9781487504557
Publisher: Univ Of Toronto Pr
Published: Nov 15 2021
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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