Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health

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 Emasu.- Chapter 4. The Domestication of Misoprostol for Abortion in Burkina Faso: Interactions Between Caregivers, Drug Vendors and Women Seydou Drabo.- Chapter 5. The 'Sustainability Doctrine' in Donor-Driven Maternal Health Programs in Tanzania Meredith G. Marten.- 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 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 C. Irvine

Lauren J. Wallace, PhD is a Senior Researcher at Dodowa Health Research Centre in Ghana. She is a medical anthropologist whose research critically examines the making and implementation of maternal and reproductive health policies at national and sub-national levels. Her PhD (2017, McMaster University, Canada), funded by a Vanier Scholarship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, was an ethnographic study of family size and family planning in northern Ghana. She has since 'studied up' to examine the dynamics of national priority setting for maternal and reproductive health in Ghana and Uganda. Dr. Wallace is currently the Ghana Principal Investigator of the COVID-19 in West and Central Africa (CATALYSE) study, which examines policy and systems responses to COVID-19 in 6 West and Central African Countries in collaboration with national policymakers. She has also worked on other large-scale, interdisciplinary global health studies as a consultant. Presently, she consults on longitudinal research into responsive and effective primary health care in urban settlements in Accra in collaboration with local governments in Ghana. As an interim board member of the newly-formed Canadian Association for Global Health, Dr. Wallace leads consultations and provides oversight to inform decisions on policy, governance, staffing, and strategic directions. She is presently an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University, where she has also held an appointment as an instructor in the Midwifery Education Program.

Margaret E. MacDonald, PhD is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Anthropology at York University in Toronto, Canada. As a medical anthropologist, her interests lie in how cultures of biomedicine, science, and technology shape ideas, practices, and materialities of gender, health, and reproduction. She conducts research in a range of settings across the globe: with