Book ID: CBB325536832

The Riddle of Malnutrition: The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda (2017)

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Tappan, Jennifer (Author)


Ohio University Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 238 pp.
Language: English

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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Review Karen E. Flint (2019) Review of "The Riddle of Malnutrition: The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda". American Historical Review (pp. 787-788). unapi

Review Ruth Prince (2019) Review of "The Riddle of Malnutrition: The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda". Social History of Medicine (pp. 646-648). unapi

Review Chau Johnsen Kelly (2018) Review of "The Riddle of Malnutrition: The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda". International Journal of African Historical Studies (pp. 356-357). unapi

Essay Review David Baronov (2018) Shifting Agendas and Competing Interests within Public Health, Science and Technology, and Medicine in Africa. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 809-816). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Harsh, Matthew
Sandra Calkins
Mika, Marissa Anne
Opolot-Okurut, Charles
Bal, Ravtosh
Siegel, Benjamin Robert
Concepts
Public health
Disease and diseases
Postcolonialism
Medicine and politics
Medicine
AIDS (disease); HIV / AIDS
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Africa
Uganda
Rwanda
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Congo
Ethiopia
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