The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health

ISBN-13: 9781032256375 / Twarda / 2024 / 488 str.

Opis

The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health provides an overview of the complex relationship between anthropology and global health. It is an essential resource for upper-level students and researchers in Anthropology, Global Health, Sociology, International Development, Health Studies, and Politics.

Spis treści

Introduction Part 1: Determinants of health: social, cultural, political  1. The “caste” of decolonization: structural casteism, public health praxis and radical accountability in contemporary India  2. Cultural determinants of health as a new strengths-based framework for global health: lessons from Indigenous Australia  3. Enhancing critical global mental health with anthropological ethnography: lessons from studies with ‘traumatised’ migrants 4. Accounting for accountability: performance-based financing and HIV prevention in China Part 2: Knowledge production in anthropology and global health  5. “This is not real anthropology”: an analysis of an anthropologist-led intervention at the World Health Organization  6. The measure of a mother: accounting for the risk of postpartum hemorrhage in global health 7. Dr. Mathur’s contradictory position: biosecurity, humanitarianism, and India’s Tuberculosis programme  8.     What is a global health worldview? Teaching undergraduate global health using ethnography  Part 3: Engaging local knowledge(s)  9. Non-western knowledge systems and utilization of traditional healing practices in contemporary Sri Lankan society 10. Missing trust and to miss trust: popular responses to COVID-19 in Burkina Faso  11. Indigenous midwifery revisited in COVID-19 times: the making of global maternal health and some anthropological lessons from Southern Mexico  12. Global health, intercultural health and the marginalisation of traditional birth attendants in Ecuador  13. Medical pluralism: opportunities and barriers to good health  Part 4: Persistent invisibilities in global health infrastructures 14.  Invisible straight men: heterosexual men’s ghostly lives and AIDS in Colombia  15. The neglected chronicity of Tuberculosis  16. Suitcases full of meds: deconstructing the political economy of pharmaceutical shortages in Lebanon with anthropological tools  17. First it was women and girls, now it is men: (in)visibility in global health programmes   18.  Muslims Living with HIV in Durban, South Africa: addressing stigma, shame, and treatment  Part 5: Toward a reimagined critical global health  19.  Countering amnesia: the importance of history and anthropology in global health  20. Decolonizing global health: a critical perspective from Latin America  21. Localizing, decolonizing and the role of anthropology in a “new global health”   22. Global health as analytic and making sense of the domestic COVID responses in the U.S.   23. A seat at the table: what role for anthropology in global health?  Part 6: New horizons in anthropology and global health  24.  Anthropology, global health and rare diseases   25. Turkey, falls and the landscape of injury  26. Imagining global health through artificial intelligence 27.  Epidemics in unstable places: anthropological perspectives on health security in West Africa  28. What if Europe’s aspiration for a leading role in Global Health starts at its borders?; Conclusion

O autorze

Ellen E. Foley is a Professor in the Department of Sustainability and Social Justice at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts with a PhD in Anthropology.  She studies sexual and reproductive health and rights, urban health disparities, and development interventions in francophone West Africa.

Tsitsi B. Masvawure is an Assistant Professor in global health, Dept of Integrative and Global Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts. She has a PhD in Anthropology (University of Pretoria, South Africa) and is feminist scholar and global health researcher who studies gender, sexuality and health (primarily HIV) in southern Africa.