Rochelle A Burgess

Rethinking Global Health

Frameworks of Power

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents its readers with the workings of power in the field of global health. The author makes use of case studies to understand how power can lead to the creation of a myriad of complex barriers to the aims and interests at the heart of the discipline.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781138653153
• ISBN-10: 1138653152
• Artikelnr.: 59985607

Autorenporträt

Rochelle A. Burgess PhD is a community health psychologist and scholar activist. She is Associate Professor in Global Health at UCL, and Deputy Director of the UCL Centre for Global Non-communicable Diseases. Born in Canada and of Jamaican heritage, she is currently based in the UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Global Health and uncomfortable truths. 2. Violence
against women as a global health issue: winners and losers in agenda
setting? 3. Everyday interventions: Psychiatric power revisited in Global
Mental health. 4. Re-thinking the global health emergency: power at work in
making and shaping of global health crises. 5. Old becomes new: Haiti,
Cholera and the matrix of domination in Global Health. 6. Conclusion: A
future better than our past in global health: Community psychology as a
panacea.