Holly Ashford

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

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9781032227849
• ISBN-10: 1032227842
• Artikelnr.: 65611625

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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