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oapen-20.500.12657-765322023-10-05T02:27:40Z Rethinking Global Health Burgess, Rochelle A. AIDS;agency;agenda setting;Bourdieu;communities;Ebola;Foucault;gender inequality;globalisation;governmentality;HIV;international development;interventions;liberation theology;mental health;NGOs;Power;power-knowledge;transference bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JM Psychology bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JM Psychology::JMU Sexual behaviour This book reflects and analyses the working of power in the field of global health– and what this goes on to produce. In so doing, Rethinking Global Health asks the pivotal questions of, ‘who is global health for’ and ‘what is it that limits our ability to build responses that meet people where they are?’ Covering a wide range of topics from global mental health to Ebola, this book combines power analyses with interviews and personal reflections spanning the author’s decade-long career in global health. It interrogates how the search for global solutions can often end up far from where we anticipated. It also introduces readers to different frameworks for power analyses in the field, including an adaptation of the ‘matrix of domination’ for global health practice. Through this work, Dr Burgess develops a new model of Transformative Global Health, a framework that calls researchers and practitioners to adopt new orienting principles, placing community interests and voices at the heart of global health planning and solutions at all times. This book will be beneficial to students and academics working in the global and public health landscape. It will also hold appeal to activists, practitioners and individuals invested in the discipline and in health equity around the world. 2023-10-04T09:27:12Z 2023-10-04T09:27:12Z 2024 book 9781138653153 9781138653160 9781315623788 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76532 eng Critical Approaches to Health application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781317227052.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781315623788 10.4324/9781315623788 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781138653153 9781138653160 9781315623788 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Routledge 141 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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This book reflects and analyses the working of power in the field of global health– and what this goes on to produce. In so doing, Rethinking Global Health asks the pivotal questions of, ‘who is global health for’ and ‘what is it that limits our ability to build responses that meet people where they are?’
Covering a wide range of topics from global mental health to Ebola, this book combines power analyses with interviews and personal reflections spanning the author’s decade-long career in global health. It interrogates how the search for global solutions can often end up far from where we anticipated. It also introduces readers to different frameworks for power analyses in the field, including an adaptation of the ‘matrix of domination’ for global health practice. Through this work, Dr Burgess develops a new model of Transformative Global Health, a framework that calls researchers and practitioners to adopt new orienting principles, placing community interests and voices at the heart of global health planning and solutions at all times.
This book will be beneficial to students and academics working in the global and public health landscape. It will also hold appeal to activists, practitioners and individuals invested in the discipline and in health equity around the world.
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