The Riddle of Malnutrition - The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Ohio University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Perspectives on Global Health
Release date:	June 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Jennifer Tappan
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	238
ISBN-13:	978-0-8214-2246-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Medical anthropology
LSN:	0-8214-2246-4
Barcode:	9780821422465

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