| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 218 pages) : illustrations |
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Perspectives on global health |
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Perspectives on global health.
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| Contents |
Diagnostic uncertainty and its consequences -- Medicalizing malnutrition -- The miracle of Kitobero -- In the shadows of structural adjustment and HIV -- Epilogue : remedicalizing malnutrition and the Plumpy'Nut Revolution |
| Summary |
More than ten million children suffer from severe acute malnutrition globally each year. In Uganda, longstanding efforts to understand, treat, and then prevent the condition initially served to medicalize it, in the eyes of both biomedical personnel and Ugandans who brought their children to the hospital for treatment and care. Medicalization meant malnutrition came to be seen as a disease - as a medical emergency - not a preventable condition, further compromising nutritional health in Uganda. Rather than rely on a foreign-led model, physicians in Uganda responded to this failure by developing a novel public health program known as Mwanamugimu. The new approach prioritized local expertise and empowering Ugandan women, blending biomedical knowledge with African sensibilities and cultural competencies. In The Riddle of Malnutrition, Jennifer Tappan examines how over the course of half a century Mwanamugimu tackled the most fatal form of childhood malnutrition-kwashiorkor-and promoted nutritional health in the midst of postcolonial violence, political upheaval, and neoliberal resource constraints. She draws on a diverse array of sources to illuminate the interplay between colonialism, the production of scientific knowledge, and the delivery of health services in contemporary Africa |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed March 11, 2019) |
| Subject |
Malnutrition in children -- Uganda -- Prevention
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Malnutrition in infants -- Uganda -- Prevention
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Nutrition policy -- Uganda
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Preventive health services -- Uganda
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Malnutrition -- Treatment -- Uganda
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Infants.
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Children.
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Public health.
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Malnutrition -- prevention & control
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Infant
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Child
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Public Health
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Preventive Health Services
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infants.
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children (people by age group)
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public health.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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HISTORY / Africa / General
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Public health
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Infants
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Children
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Malnutrition in children -- Prevention
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Malnutrition -- Treatment
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Nutrition policy
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Preventive health services
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| SUBJECT |
Uganda |
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Uganda
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017006596 |
| ISBN |
9780821445914 |
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082144591X |
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