Rethinking Global Health : Frameworks of Power.

Burgess, Rochelle A.

Rethinking Global Health : Frameworks of Power. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (141 pages) - Critical Approaches to Health Series . - Critical Approaches to Health Series .

Intro -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Editor Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Note to the Reader -- 1. Introduction: Global health and its uncomfortable truths -- A brief history of global health: Definitions and uncomfortable truths -- Where to begin? Grappling with power in global health -- Conceptualising power in global health: Frameworks on action, decision-making, knowledge and resistance -- A exerts power over B? Making sense of Dhal through Lukes faces of power -- Decision-making face of power - A makes B do something they would not otherwise do -- Agenda setting face of power - A prevents B from doing something they would otherwise do -- Thought control power - A manipulates B into doing something that is against B's interest (but B does it voluntarily anyway) -- Knowledge and resistance dyad: Foucault's other contributions to global health -- Where power works: John Gaventa's power cube -- What next: In search of a power framework for the future of global health -- A power framework for our times? A matrix of domination in global health -- How to understand this book -- Notes -- 2. Violence against women as a global health issue: Winners and losers in agenda setting? -- A dream deferred: Uganda, violence against women and the MAD* bill -- Productive power in the disciplinary domain: Agenda setting and making claims (on behalf of others) -- From proposals to reality: A (brief) critical analysis of Violence Against Women as a global health issue -- How does the influence of academic discourse produced by journals like The Lancet impact the representation of a violence against women agenda in the global south? (What is the problem presented to be because of the Lancet's engagement?). Who is left out? Assumptions and the silencing of structural and symbolic violence against women in a global health response -- What are the implications of this representation of the problem of violence against women and girls? What are the lived effects for women themselves? -- Conclusion: Women need a (series of) revolutions -- Notes -- 3. Everyday interventions: Psychiatric power revisited in global mental health -- A call to action? The movement for global mental health and voices of dissent -- The power of the psy-disciplines at work in the disciplinary and interpersonal domains: Subjectification, (in)action and agency in the face of structural violence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4. Re-thinking the global health emergency: Power at work in making and shaping global health crises -- Life after Ebola? Undertanding the 'original' emergency -- The power of an idea: The global health/humanitarian emergency -- Who knows best? Quick fixes, paternalism and the global health emergency -- Conclusion: Where to for the next emergency? -- Notes -- 5. Old becomes new: Haiti, Cholera and the matrix of domination in global health -- The United Nation's secret success: Cholera Response Track 2 -- The (im)possibility of health in Haiti? The matrix of domination in the context of Cholera -- Power in the structural domain: Health without structures? -- The disciplinary domain: Who is deciding what can be decided? -- Hegemonic domain: The enduring power of an idea and what it means for health in Haiti -- Interpersonal domain: Resistance, rejection and hope for a different future -- Conclusion: There is always a way -- Notes -- Conclusion: A future better than our past in global health -- The matrix of domination undone? Community psychology as panacea for responding to global health challenges -- References -- Index.

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