Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health: From Policy Spaces to Sites of Practice

Foreword

Craig Janes

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction

Lauren J. Wallace, Margaret E. Macdonald & Katerini T. Storeng

Part I. Implementation Disconnects and Policy Rhetoric

Chapter 2. Baby (not so) Friendly: Implementation of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative in Serbia

Ljiljana Pantovic

Chapter 3. The Promise and Neglect of Follow-up Care in Obstetric Fistula Treatment in Uganda

Bonnie Ruder & Alice Aturo Emasu

Chapter 4. The Domestication of Misoprostol for Abortion in Burkina Faso: Interactions Between Caregivers, Drug Vendors and Women

Chapter 5. The 'Sustainability Doctrine' in Donor-driven Maternal Health Programs in Tanzania

Part II. Policy Ambivalence

Chapter 6. The Place of Traditional Birth Attendants in Global Maternal Health: Policy Retreat, Ambivalence, and Return

Margaret E. MacDonald

Chapter 7. Conflicted Reproductive Governance: The Co-existence of Rights-Based Approaches and Coercion in India's Family Planning Policies

Maya Unnithan

Part III. Contesting Authoritative Knowledge and Practice

Chapter 8. Regulating Midwives: Foreclosing Alternatives in the Policy-making Process in West Java, Indonesia

Priscilla Anne Magrath

Part IV. The Rise of Evidence and its Uses

Chapter 9. Making Space for Qualitative Evidence in Global Maternal and Child Health Policy-making

Christopher J. Colvin

Chapter 10. The International Childbirth Initiative: An Applied Anthropologist's Account of Developing Global Guidelines

Robbie Davis-Floyd

Chapter 11. Selling Beautiful Births: The Use of Evidence by Brazil's Humanised Birth Movement

Lucy Irvine