The Riddle of Malnutrition - The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Tappan
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9780821422458
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-2245-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Perspectives on Global Health; Perspectives on Global Health
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous