Intro -- Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health -- From Policy Spaces to Sites of Practice -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Introduction -- The Anthropology of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health Policy -- Implementation Disconnects and Policy Rhetoric -- Policy Ambivalence -- Contesting Authoritative Knowledge and Practice -- The Rise of Evidence and Its Uses -- Conclusion -- An Agenda for Future Research on Global Maternal and Reproductive Health Policy -- References -- Part I: Implementation Disconnects and Policy Rhetoric -- Chapter 2: Baby (Not So) Friendly: Implementation of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative in Serbia -- Introduction -- Methods -- The Global Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative -- The History of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative in Serbia -- The 1990s -- The Early 2000s -- 2012 to the Present -- The Not-So-Baby-Friendly Maternity Hospital -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: The Promise and Neglect of Follow-up Care in Obstetric Fistula Treatment in Uganda -- Introduction -- Obstetric Fistula in Uganda -- Methods -- Obstetric Fistula Emerges as an International Priority -- Fistula Policy in Uganda -- In Search of Follow-up Protocols -- Women's Experiences with Fistula Follow-up Care -- Unclear Diagnosis -- Barriers to Follow-up -- Surgeon's Perspectives on Follow-up -- Tracking Residual Incontinence -- Failure of Policy or Priority? Making Sense of the Neglect of Follow-up -- References -- Chapter 4: The Domestication of Misoprostol for Abortion in Burkina Faso: Interactions Between Caregivers, Drug Vendors and Women -- Introduction -- The Social, Legal and Policy Context of Misoprostol in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso -- Field Site and Methods.

Data Analysis and Ethical Issues -- How Health Providers and Drug Vendors Circumvent the Regulation of Misoprostol -- Intermediaries' Motivations -- Pharmaceutical Diversion of Misoprostol by Women -- When the Diversion of Misoprostol Reproduces Social Inequities -- Discussion and Conclusion: Safe Access to Safe Abortion -- References -- Chapter 5: The "Sustainability Doctrine" in Donor-Driven Maternal Health Programs in Tanzania -- Introduction: Unpacking the Sustainability Doctrine -- Methods -- Conceptualizations of "Sustainability" Among Policymakers in the Tanzanian NGO Community -- Paradoxical Outcomes from MDG-era Efforts to Build Sustainability: NGO-Driven Brain Drain in the Tanzanian Health Sector -- The Sustainability Doctrine in Practice: Basic Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care Trainings and Workshops -- Persisting Sustainability Doctrine Practices in Tanzania's Respectful Maternity Care Efforts -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Policy Ambivalence -- Chapter 6: The Place of Traditional Birth Attendants in Global Maternal Health: Policy Retreat, Ambivalence and Return -- A Midwife by Any Other Name -- Introduction -- The Traditional Birth Attendant: A Global Health Invention -- Critical Perspectives on the TBA Policy Shift -- A Question of Evidence -- Flaws in the Original TBA Intervention -- The Global Political and Economic Context of the Safe Motherhood Initiative -- A New Humanitarian Logic with no Room for the Figure of the Traditional Birth Attendant -- Conclusion: The Return of the Traditional Birth Attendant? -- References -- Chapter 7: Conflicted Reproductive Governance: The Co-existence of Rights-Based Approaches and Coercion in India's Family Planning Policies -- Introduction -- A Note on Methods -- The Anthropology of the State and Reproductive Governance -- India's Family Planning and Underlying Policy Rationale.

Tracking Rights-Based Ideas in Family Planning -- The Policy Rationale for a Return to Sterilisation -- Embodying Conflicted Governance: ASHA Health-Worker Perceptions and Practices -- Concluding Discussion: Contrariness as Effective Policy -- References -- Part III: Contesting Authoritative Knowledge and Practice -- Chapter 8: Regulating Midwives: Foreclosing Alternatives in the Policymaking Process in West Java, Indonesia -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Site Selection -- Methods -- The Promotion of "Skilled Birth Attendants" in Global Health Policy -- Maternal Health Policy in the Context of Decentralization in Indonesia -- The Development of the District Regulation on Partnership Between Bidan, Paraji, and Kader: Policy Entrepreneurship, the Use of Evidence, and the Role of Numbers -- Building the Evidence Base: Partnership Pilots and Paraji Perspectives -- Alternative Views on Partnership: Perspectives of Mothers, Paraji and Bidan -- What Makes for a Successful Partnership Between Bidan and Paraji? -- Formulating the Text of the Regulation -- The District Parliamentary Meeting -- Theme 1: Mothers and Infants Should Not Be Dying -- Theme 2: Paraji Are of the Past, Not the Future -- Theme 3: Competition Between Bidan and Paraji Will Not Work -- Discussion -- References -- Chapter 9: Making Space for Qualitative Evidence in Global Maternal and Child Health Policymaking -- Introduction -- A Note on Methods -- A Primer on Qualitative Evidence Synthesis -- Origin Stories: QES in OptimizeMNH -- New Hierarchies Undone by Old Methods -- NerdWorld: Pragmatism, Innovation, and Ideology -- Show Your Work!: Transparency, Accountability, and Interpretation -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV: The Rise of Evidence and Its Uses -- Chapter 10: The International Childbirth Initiative: An Applied Anthropologist's Account of Developing Global Guidelines.

Introduction: A Focus on Process -- Birth Activism -- The Larger Context: A Need for a Quality-of-Care-Based Initiative -- Creating the International MotherBaby Childbirth Initiative (IMBCI): 10 Steps to Optimal MotherBaby Maternity Services -- IMBCO's Pilot Project: Disappointment and Setback -- MotherBaby Networks (MBnets) -- The FIGO Initiative -- Creating the International Childbirth Initiative: 12 Steps to Safe and Respectful MotherBaby-Family Maternity Care -- Resolving Disagreements in the Creation of the ICI -- Endorsement and Implementation -- Conclusion -- Our Ultimate Vision: Setting the Gold Standard for Optimal Maternity Care -- References -- Chapter 11: Selling Beautiful Births: The Use of Evidence by Brazil's Humanised Birth Movement -- Introduction -- Methods -- The Intervention Epidemic in Brazil -- The Movement for Humanised Care in Childbirth -- Strategies for Humanising Policy and Practice -- Obstetric Violence -- Using Evidence in Humanised Policy Design -- Contesting Evidence, Overcoming Cesaristas -- Marketing Beautiful Births -- Discussion -- References -- Index.

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