1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health

Edited By Tsitsi B. Masvawure, Ellen E. Foley Copyright 2024
448 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

448 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

448 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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)... Read more

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.