The riddle of malnutrition : the long arc of biomedical and public health interventions in Uganda /

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Author / Creator:Tappan, Jennifer, author.
Imprint:Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2017]
©2017
Description:1 online resource (xx, 218 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Perspectives on global health
Perspectives on global health.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11677237
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ISBN:9780821445914
082144591X
9780821422458
0821422456
9780821422465
0821422464
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed March 11, 2019).
Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Tappan, Jennifer. Riddle of malnutrition. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2017] 9780821422458

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