1st Edition
Case Studies in Global Health Illuminating Theory and Practice
Introduction: Illuminating Global Health
Lillian Walkover, Jack Fukushima, Phuoc V. Le, Sriram Shamasunder, Vincanne Adams
1. Multiple Mortalities in Chiapas: Recognizing Structural Violence in Clinical Care
Aníbal Gutiérrez Torres Fátima Rodríguez Cuevas, Rodrigo Bazúa Lobato, Jimena Maza, Leanne Marcotrigiano, Trisha Schimek, Michael Harvey, Joshua Neff
2. When Technical Solutions Hide Political Harm: Heart Disease and Colonial History in Haiti
Georgery Constant, Amanda Bradke, Colleen Keough, Raphael Frankfurter, Seth M. Holmes
3. A Navajo Transwoman Seeks Care: Rethinking Cultural Competence and Biopower
Colleen Keough, Stephen Mehanni, Lola (Lyle) Tsosie, Claire Wendland
4. Constipation as Embodied Oppression: Using Structural Competency in Community Health
Lillian Walkover, Anup Agarwal, Bassem Ghali, Qiratulanne Khan
5. Purity and Danger: Menstruation and Social Suffering in Nepal
Isha Nirola, Subeksha Poudel, Sienna Craig
Conclusion: Learning Together Through Practice
Robin Goldman, Lillian Walkover
Appendix A: Adapted Structural Vulnerability Assessment Tool
Biography
Lillian Walkover is faculty in the Department of Communication and the Global Health Program at the University of California San Diego.
Jack Fukushima is a medical and doctoral student at the University of California Los Angeles.
Sriram Shamasunder and Phuoc V. Le are faculty at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, and co-founders of the HEAL Initiative.
"Case Studies in Global Health honors the late Paul Farmer's career-long emphasis on applying social theories to global health interventions and global health problems more generally. The book provides interesting and useful examples at the level of lived experience and clinical and public health practice of why the translation of social theory can be so significant for global health. Just as important and equally representative of the commitment of Farmer, is the presence in the volume of authors whose careers represent this critical practice. A highly appropriate tribute and a practically significant continuation of what critical global public health can be."
— Arthur Kleinman, MD Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard"Ill-health is not a biological phenomenon alone—it is a complex alchemy of social, economic, structural, and political forces. As the poison of health inequity rises globally, the only antidote is solidarity—deep listening to, learning from, and acting with those who are oppressed by these forces. The stories in this collection seek to share this work of proximity and call for the practice of social medicine."
— Joia S. Mukherjee, MD/MPH, Partners in Health
