1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health
The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health provides an overview of the complex relationship between anthropology and global health. The book brings together a diverse group of scholars who consider the intersection of anthropological concerns with health and disease as understood and intervened upon by the field of global health.
The book is structured around five sections: (1) social, cultural, and political determinants of health; (2) knowledge production in anthropology and global health; (3) persistent invisibilities in global health; (4) reimagining a critical global health; and (5) new horizons in anthropology and global health. Over these five themes a range of topics is explored, including:
- rare diseases
- medical pluralism
- universal global health protocols
- HIV
- health security
- indigenous communities
- (non)communicable diseases
- decolonizing global health
The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health is an essential resource for upper-level students and researchers in anthropology, global health, sociology, international development, health studies, and politics.
Introduction
Tsitsi B. Masvawure and Ellen Foley
Part 1: Determinants of health: social, cultural, political
1. The “caste” of decolonization: structural casteism, public health praxis and radical accountability in contemporary India
Nikhil Pandhi
2. Cultural determinants of health as a new strengths-based framework for global health: lessons from Indigenous Australia
Sarah Bourke
3. Enhancing critical global mental health with anthropological ethnography: lessons from studies with ‘traumatised’ migrants
Runa Lazzarino
4. Accounting for accountability: performance-based financing and HIV prevention in China
Elsa Fan
Part 2: Knowledge production in anthropology and global health
5. “This is not real anthropology”: an analysis of an anthropologist-led intervention at the World Health Organization
Dalton Price
6. The measure of a mother: accounting for the risk of postpartum hemorrhage in global health
Andie Thompson and Emily Yates-Doerr
7. Dr. Mathur’s contradictory position: biosecurity, humanitarianism, and India’s Tuberculosis programme
Andrew McDowell
8. What is a global health worldview? Teaching undergraduate global health using ethnography
Pamela Runestad
Part 3: Engaging local knowledge(s)
9. Non-western knowledge systems and utilization of traditional healing practices in contemporary Sri Lankan society
Chandani Liyanage, Pushpa Ekanayake and Brianne Wenning
10. Missing trust and to miss trust: popular responses to COVID-19 in Burkina Faso
Pia Juul Bjetrup and Landry Bambara
11. Indigenous midwifery revisited in COVID-19 times: the making of global maternal health and some anthropological lessons from Southern Mexico
Paola M. Sesia and Lina R Berrio Palomo
12. Global health, intercultural health and the marginalisation of traditional birth attendants in Ecuador
Erika Arteaga Cruz and Juan Cuvi
13. Medical pluralism: opportunities and barriers to good health
Meredith G Marten and Spencer K. Seymour
Part 4: Persistent invisibilities in global health infrastructures
14. Invisible straight men: heterosexual men’s ghostly lives and AIDS in Colombia
Héctor Camilo Ruiz-Sánchez
15. The neglected chronicity of Tuberculosis
Dillon Wademan and Amrita Daftary
16. Suitcases full of meds: deconstructing the political economy of pharmaceutical shortages in Lebanon with anthropological tools
Anthony Rizk and Magdalena Goralska
17. First it was women and girls, now it is men: (in)visibility in global health programmes
Alfred Adams and Nolwazi Mkhwanazi
18. Muslims Living with HIV in Durban, South Africa: addressing stigma, shame, and treatment
Shabnam Shaik
Part 5 Toward a reimagined critical global health
19. Countering amnesia: the importance of history and anthropology in global health
Sarah Howard, David H Bannister and Sebastian Fonseca
20. Decolonizing global health: a critical perspective from Latin America
Vivian Laurens and Cesar Abadia-Barrero
21. Localizing, decolonizing and the role of anthropology in a “new global health”
Megan Schmidt-Sane, Janet McGrath, Norma Ojehomon and David Kaawa-Mafigiri
22. Global health as analytic and making sense of the domestic COVID responses in the U.S.
Tsitsi B. Masvawure
23. A seat at the table: what role for anthropology in global health?
Ellen Foley and James Pfeiffer
Part 6: New horizons in anthropology and global health
24. Anthropology, global health and rare diseases
Malgorzata Rajtar and Eva-Maria Knoll
25. Turkey, falls and the landscape of injury
Servando Hinojosa
26. Imagining global health through artificial intelligence
Leah Junck
27. Epidemics in unstable places: anthropological perspectives on health security in West Africa.
Helle Samuelsen and Lea Pare Toe
28. What if Europe’s aspiration for a leading role in Global Health starts at its borders?
Mayssa Rekhis
Conclusion
Ellen Foley and Tsitsi B. Masvawure
Biography
Tsitsi B. Masvawure is an Assistant Professor (anthropology and global health) in the Department of Integrative and Global Studies, The Global School, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts. She has a PhD in Anthropology and is a feminist scholar, and global health researcher who studies gender, sexuality and health (primarily HIV) in southern Africa.
Ellen E. Foley is a Professor in the Department of Sustainability and Social Justice at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts with a PhD in Anthropology. She studies sexual and reproductive health and rights, urban health disparities, and development interventions in francophone West Africa.
