Author Talk with Rachel Hall-Clifford In conversation with Arthur Kleinman

Deaths from childhood diarrhea seem preposterous in high-income countries. Yet, for children under five years old in much of the world, diarrhea is the third highest cause of mortality. Despite a glut of prevention and treatment programming, this least glamorous of global health ills remains a critical problem. In Underbelly, 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.

With 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.

Rachel Hall-Clifford is Associate 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.

Arthur Kleinman is currently professor of psychiatry and of medical anthropology at Harvard Medical School and Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

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