Global Health in Fragments : Saviourism, Community, and Experimentation in Zambia
Global Health in Fragments : Saviourism, Community, and Experimentation in Zambia
Click to enlarge
Author(s): Wintrup, James
ISBN No.: 9781041114697
Pages: 214
Year: 202601
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 262.20
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (Forthcoming)

"Over the past thirty years, an ever-expanding community of global health actors have been intervening in the poorest parts of the world with the aim of combatting disease and improving health outcomes. Whilst many global health programmes in the Global South have been successful in saving lives, their successes have often been compromised by poor coordination, inefficiency, and a lack of alignment with national priorities. This book outlines the deep historical and political dimensions of this fragmentation, using rural Zambia as a case study. In the name of global health, different actors produce and circulate radically different stories about how to improve health. These narratives do not only contribute to a fragmented landscape of health provision but also create more subtle and pervasive forms of fragmentation in the everyday lives of health workers, patients, and government officials. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in rural Zambia, this book examines three different global health interventions driven by differing stories of salvation, community, and experimentation. Tracing the longer history of these stories, the book shows how they have failed to account for the realities of life in rural Zambia. Providing an innovative and nuanced analysis of global health that challenges ideas of fragmentation as simply a technical problem, this book will be an important read for researchers of global health and African studies"--.



To be able to view the table of contents for this publication then please subscribe by clicking the button below...
To be able to view the full description for this publication then please subscribe by clicking the button below...