Development and Women's Reproductive Health in Ghana, 1920-1982

ISBN-13: 9781032227849 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str.

Holly Ashford

Opis

This book explores the history of women's reproductive health in Ghana, arguing that between the 1920s and 1980s, it was largely driven by discourses of development and population control. The book will be of interest to researchers and students in the history of public health, development and Africa.

Spis treści

Introduction  Chapter 1: Hoping for Growth: population and development in colonial Gold Coast 1920 - 1932  Chapter 2: Humanitarianism in the Gold Coast 1932-1939: the establishment of maternal and infant welfare  Chapter 3: Social Development and Medicalising Reproduction 1940-1956  Chapter 4: Reproducing the Nation in Nkrumah’s Ghana 1952 – 1966  Chapter 5: Establishing the National Family Planning Programme, 1966 - 1972   Chapter 6: From Population Control to Primary Health Care? Rural Health Interventions in Ghana, 1969 – 1982   Afterword Bibliography

O autorze

Holly Ashford completed her PhD in History at Cambridge University, UK.