1st Edition
Global Health in Fragments Saviourism, Community, and Experimentation in Zambia
By James Wintrup
Copyright 2026
186 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
186 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Over the past 30 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. While 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... Read more
Introduction: Three Stories of Global Health
PART ONE: STORIES OF SAVIOURISM
1. Fantasies of Suffering and Neglect
2. Relational Fragmentation
PART TWO: STORIES OF COMMUNITY
3. Health by the People, Again
4. Communities Divided
PART THREE: STORIES OF EXPERIMENTATION
5. Utopian Realism
6. Disconnected Realities
Conclusion: Global Health in Fragments
Biography
James Wintrup is a social anthropologist and a senior researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Norway.
