Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health

This book treats policy as an ethnographic object. Its ten chapters examine global policies for improving maternal and reproductive health, tracking the processes and politics of their making, the mechanisms of their implementation in diverse contexts, and people's intimate encounters with their consequences and effects. Doing so is timely since there is a growing appreciation that the success of health policies and
interventions hinges on issues that are at the core of medical anthropological inquiry: the complexities of program implementation, the impact of socio-political contexts, and issues of local agency, equity and accessibility. Indeed, the burgeoning subfeld of health policy and systems research views an interpretive and critical inquiry that draws on multiple disciplines, not least anthropology, as essential to understanding
and informing effective policy (Gilson et al., 2011; Ghaffar et al., 2016).
[Canada: 2017]

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