1st Edition
The Lives of Community Health Workers Local Labor and Global Health in Urban Ethiopia
1. The problems facing community health workers at the turn of Ethiopia’s alicha millennium
2. Becoming a community health worker: a biosocial and historical perspective
3. Some assembly required: community health worker recruitment and basic training
4. To care and to suffer: community health work amid unemployment and food insecurity
5. Where there is no labor movement
Conclusion: recommendations for action and research
Biography
Kenneth Maes is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in Oregon State University’s School of Language, Culture and Society. He received his PhD from Emory University in 2010, and from 2010-2012 he was a NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University’s Population Studies and Training Center.
'Both for those who are knowledgeable about community health worker issues as well as for those with a broad interest in global health, this is an important book that brings a social science and anthropological perspective to two of the important issues of our time.'
Henry B. Perry Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 92, 2018
