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Author Tappan, Jennifer, author.

Title The riddle of malnutrition : the long arc of biomedical and public health interventions in Uganda / by Jennifer Tappan.

Publication Info. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Perspectives on global health
Perspectives on global health.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Diagnostic uncertainty and its consequences -- Medicalizing malnutrition -- The miracle of Kitobero -- In the shadows of structural adjustment and HIV -- Epilogue : remedicalizing malnutrition and the Plumpy'Nut Revolution.
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.
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Subject Malnutrition in children -- Uganda -- Prevention.
Malnutrition in children.
Uganda.
Malnutrition in infants -- Uganda -- Prevention.
Malnutrition in infants.
Nutrition policy -- Uganda.
Nutrition policy.
Preventive health services -- Uganda.
Preventive health services.
Malnutrition -- Treatment -- Uganda.
Malnutrition -- Treatment.
Malnutrition.
Uganda.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Tappan, Jennifer. Riddle of malnutrition. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2017] 9780821422458 (DLC) 2017006596 (OCoLC)959265571
ISBN 9780821445914 (electronic book)
082144591X (electronic book)
9780821422458
0821422456
9780821422465
0821422464