Sylvia Esther Gyan

Converging knowledges in the maternity ward in Ghana: an ethnographic study of care for women with pre-eclampsia

Efforts to improve maternal health rely heavily on biomedicine. Anthropologists, often US-based, have critiqued biomedicine for being 'authoritative knowledge' that shifts power from women to medical experts, and colonises and de-values other birth traditions. However, this ethno...