Rethinking Global Health : Frameworks of Power.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Milton :
Taylor & Francis Group,
2023.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Critical Approaches to Health Series
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| Online Access: | Click to View |
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.


