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The Riddle of Malnutrition - The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda (Hardcover)
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The Riddle of Malnutrition - The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda (Hardcover)
Series: Perspectives on Global Health
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More than ten million children suffer from severe acute
malnutrition globally each year. In Uganda, longstanding efforts to
understand, treat, and then prevent the condition initially served
to medicalize it, in the eyes of both biomedical personnel and
Ugandans who brought their children to the hospital for treatment
and care. Medicalization meant malnutrition came to be seen as a
disease-as a medical emergency-not a preventable condition, further
compromising nutritional health in Uganda. Rather than rely on a
foreign-led model, physicians in Uganda responded to this failure
by developing a novel public health program known as Mwanamugimu.
The new approach prioritized local expertise and empowering Ugandan
women, blending biomedical knowledge with African sensibilities and
cultural competencies. In The Riddle of Malnutrition, Jennifer
Tappan examines how over the course of half a century Mwanamugimu
tackled the most fatal form of childhood
malnutrition-kwashiorkor-and promoted nutritional health in the
midst of postcolonial violence, political upheaval, and neoliberal
resource constraints. She draws on a diverse array of sources to
illuminate the interplay between colonialism, the production of
scientific knowledge, and the delivery of health services in
contemporary Africa.
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