| Description |
1 online resource (141 p.) |
| Series |
Critical Approaches to Health Series |
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Critical Approaches to Health Series
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| Contents |
Intro -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Editor Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Note to the Reader -- 1. Introduction: Global health and its uncomfortable truths -- A brief history of global health: Definitions and uncomfortable truths -- Where to begin? Grappling with power in global health -- Conceptualising power in global health: Frameworks on action, decision-making, knowledge and resistance -- A exerts power over B? Making sense of Dhal through Lukes faces of power |
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Decision-making face of power -- A makes B do something they would not otherwise do -- Agenda setting face of power -- A prevents B from doing something they would otherwise do -- Thought control power -- A manipulates B into doing something that is against B's interest (but B does it voluntarily anyway) -- Knowledge and resistance dyad: Foucault's other contributions to global health -- Where power works: John Gaventa's power cube -- What next: In search of a power framework for the future of global health -- A power framework for our times? A matrix of domination in global health |
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How to understand this book -- Notes -- 2. Violence against women as a global health issue: Winners and losers in agenda setting? -- A dream deferred: Uganda, violence against women and the MAD* bill -- Productive power in the disciplinary domain: Agenda setting and making claims (on behalf of others) -- From proposals to reality: A (brief) critical analysis of Violence Against Women as a global health issue |
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How does the influence of academic discourse produced by journals like The Lancet impact the representation of a violence against women agenda in the global south? (What is the problem presented to be because of the Lancet's engagement?) -- Who is left out? Assumptions and the silencing of structural and symbolic violence against women in a global health response -- What are the implications of this representation of the problem of violence against women and girls? What are the lived effects for women themselves? -- Conclusion: Women need a (series of) revolutions -- Notes |
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3. Everyday interventions: Psychiatric power revisited in global mental health -- A call to action? The movement for global mental health and voices of dissent -- The power of the psy-disciplines at work in the disciplinary and interpersonal domains: Subjectification, (in)action and agency in the face of structural violence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4. Re-thinking the global health emergency: Power at work in making and shaping global health crises -- Life after Ebola? Undertanding the 'original' emergency -- The power of an idea: The global health/humanitarian emergency |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Who knows best? Quick fixes, paternalism and the global health emergency |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317227052 |
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1317227050 |
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