{"product_id":"underbelly-isbn-9780262547765","title":"Underbelly","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn unsettling exploration of the hidden power dynamics of global health, seen through the lens of childhood diarrhea and its treatment within the Guatemalan context.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeaths from childhood diarrhea seem preposterous in high-income countries. Yet, for children under five years old in the rest of the world, diarrhea is the third highest cause of mortality. Despite a glut of prevention and treatment programming spanning more than forty years, this least glamorous of global health ills remains a critical problem. In \u003ci\u003eUnderbelly\u003c\/i\u003e, Rachel Hall-Clifford takes a hard look at the pathways of global health funding and development policies and the outcomes they deliver for recipient individuals and communities. Drawing on fifteen years of ethnographic research in highland Guatemala, Hall-Clifford focuses on the provision of primary health care services as a critical exemplar of how global health and development programs fall short.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGuatemala has a fragmented health system, the author explains, that guarantees health as a human right but also suffers from systemic racism, inadequate health services and access to those services, community distrust from a legacy of harm and violence, and a demeaning paternalism. Bringing together the discourses of global health and medical anthropology, \u003ci\u003eUnderbelly\u003c\/i\u003e explores the ways in which global health—its actors, structures, and systems—perpetuates the challenges it purports to fix: this is the underbelly. Hall-Clifford argues that global health programs, conceived in offices distant from the places in which they are delivered, often have unintended consequences and contribute to pluralistic and exclusionary health systems that mirror neoliberal economies. She argues that if we are to fix this entrenched crisis of health inequity, we must use the immense resources of global health to center local communities as drivers of change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a foreword written by Waleska López Canu, an Indigenous Maya medical director, and an afterword by Arthur Kleinman,  renowned expert in global health, this book underscores the importance of looking deeper into what seems on its surface incontrovertibly “good” to understand the more complex realities on the ground and in people’s lives.List of Figures and Tables ix\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003eForeword xiii\u003cbr\u003eWaleska Lopez Canu\u003cbr\u003ePrologue 1\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 7\u003cbr\u003e1 Oral Rehydration Therapy and the Not-So-Simple Solution to Diarrhea 39\u003cbr\u003e2 Entanglements of Empowerment: Women, Caregiving, and Global Health 69\u003cbr\u003e3 Of Machetes and Medicine: Troubled Pathways to Government Health Services 101\u003cbr\u003e4 Turning Diarrhea into Dinero: Market-Driven Health Services 131\u003cbr\u003e5 Global Guidelines, Local Realities: Complexities of Global Health 167\u003cbr\u003eConclusion 195\u003cbr\u003eAfterword 203\u003cbr\u003eArthur Klienman\u003cbr\u003eNotes 207\u003cbr\u003eIndex 245“A needed contribution to the critical ethnography of global health that addresses one of the biggest yet most mundane childhood killers. Hall-Clifford demonstrates how even the simplest of technological solutions can fail to solve global health problems, making a powerful argument that social and political factors are at the center of morbidity and mortality and must be addressed to improve health outcomes.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Nicole S. Berry, Professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Hall-Clifford’s engaging writing style, mixed-methods approach, and ability to situate individual women within local, national, and global contexts effectively demonstrate how complex, and contradictory, even ‘simple’ global health interventions may be.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jonathan Maupin, Associate Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University\u003c\/b\u003eRachel Hall-Clifford is Assistant Professor of Human Health and Sociology at the Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Assistant Professor of Global Health at the Emory Rollins School of Public Health, and In-Country Director of the NAPA-OT Field School in Guatemala.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302801723621,"sku":"NP9780262547765","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262547765.jpg?v=1767743223","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/underbelly-isbn-9780262547765","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}