Sections

• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Editors and Contributors
• 1. Introduction
• I. Implementation Disconnects and Policy Rhetoric
  • 2. Baby (Not So) Friendly: Implementation of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative in Serbia
  • 3. The Promise and Neglect of Follow-up Care in Obstetric Fistula Treatment in Uganda
  • 4. The Domestication of Misoprostol for Abortion in Burkina Faso: Interactions Between Caregivers, Drug Vendors and Women
  • 5. The “Sustainability Doctrine” in Donor-Driven Maternal Health Programs in Tanzania
• II. Policy Ambivalence
  • 6. The Place of Traditional Birth Attendants in Global Maternal Health: Policy Retreat, Ambivalence and Return
  • 7. Conflicted Reproductive Governance: The Co-existence of Rights-Based Approaches and Coercion in India’s Family Planning Policies
• III. Contesting Authoritative Knowledge and Practice
  • 8. Regulating Midwives: Foreclosing Alternatives in the Policymaking Process in West Java, Indonesia
  • 9. Making Space for Qualitative Evidence in Global Maternal and Child Health Policymaking
• IV. The Rise of Evidence and Its Uses
  • 10. The International Childbirth Initiative: An Applied Anthropologist’s Account of Developing Global Guidelines
  • 11. Selling Beautiful Births: The Use of Evidence by Brazil’s Humanised Birth Movement