Rethinking Global Health : Frameworks of Power.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burgess, Rochelle A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Critical Approaches to Health Series
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Table of 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Who knows best? Quick fixes, paternalism and the global health emergency
  • Conclusion: Where to for the next emergency?
  • Notes
  • 5. Old becomes new: Haiti, Cholera and the matrix of domination in global health
  • The United Nation's secret success: Cholera Response Track 2
  • The (im)possibility of health in Haiti? The matrix of domination in the context of Cholera
  • Power in the structural domain: Health without structures?
  • The disciplinary domain: Who is deciding what can be decided?
  • Hegemonic domain: The enduring power of an idea and what it means for health in Haiti
  • Interpersonal domain: Resistance, rejection and hope for a different future
  • Conclusion: There is always a way
  • Notes
  • Conclusion: A future better than our past in global health
  • The matrix of domination undone? Community psychology as panacea for responding to global health challenges
  • References
  • Index.