Rethinking Global Health: Frameworks of Power [Paperback]

1. Introduction: Global Health and uncomfortable truths. 2. Violence against women as a global health issue: winners and losers in agenda setting? 3. Everyday interventions: Psychiatric power revisited in Global Mental health. 4. Re-thinking the global health emergency: power at work in making and shaping of global health crises. 5. Old becomes new: Haiti, Cholera and the matrix of domination in Global Health. 6. Conclusion: A future better than our past in global health: Community psychology as a panacea.

This book presents its readers with the workings of power in the field of global health. The author makes use of case studies to understand how power can lead to the creation of a myriad of complex barriers to the aims and interests at the heart of the discipline.

In this terrific, highly engaging book, Rochelle Burgess challenges us to think about what is global health without power, notably the power over who lives and who dies. This goes to the heart of every contemporary debate and policy practice and is thus essential reading for everyone working in global health. Burgess command of stories that matter and scope of empirical cases combined with conceptual insight drawn from her years of expertise position this book at the heart of the global health canon.

Professor Sophie Harman, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary, University of London

I want to place this book in the hands of every global health student, and everyone who has ever thought about, worked towards, or been on the recieving end of efforts to achieve health equity. The book puts the field of global health in its historical contexts, while brilliantly, sensitively, and inclusivly pointing at what it could be; a field that lives up to its name.

Dr. Seye Abimbola, AlӉ