Rachel Hall-Clifford, Arthur Kleinman

Underbelly

Childhood Diarrhea and the Hidden Local Realities of Global Health

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Produktbeschreibung

"Underbelly articulates the pathways of global health funding and development policies by exploring their outcomes for recipient individuals and communities. Drawing on 15 years of ethnographic research and global health program implementation in highland Guatemala, this book focuses on the provision of primary health care services as a critical exemplar of how global health and development programs fall short, specifically focusing on efforts to prevent and treat diarrhea"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 154mm x 230mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9780262547765
• ISBN-10: 0262547767
• Artikelnr.: 70602209

Autorenporträt

Rachel Hall-Clifford; foreword by Waleska López Canu; afterword by Arthur Kleinman

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables ix
Acknowledgments xi
Foreword xiii
Waleska Lopez Canu
Prologue 1
Introduction 7
1 Oral Rehydration Therapy and the Not-So-Simple Solution to Diarrhea 39
2 Entanglements of Empowerment: Women, Caregiving, and Global Health 69
3 Of Machetes and Medicine: Troubled Pathways to Government Health Services
101
4 Turning Diarrhea into Dinero: Market-Driven Health Services 131
5 Global Guidelines, Local Realities: Complexities of Global Health 167
Conclusion 195
Afterword 203
Arthur Klienman
Notes 207
Index 245