Research Catalog

Title

Medicine and the politics of knowledge / edited by Susan Levine.

Publication

• Cape Town, South Africa : HSRC Press, 2012.
• [Chicago, Illinois?] : Distributed in North America by River North Editions from IPG

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Additional Authors

Levine, Susan (Susan L.),

Description

vii, 200 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Medicine and the Politics of Knowledge situates South Africa - including its history of stances and political formations around HIV/AIDS - in the broader context of questions relating to science, medicine, human experimentation, and structural violence, all of which shape the cases in the book. Putting South Africa in the context of other cases of contention and contestation about science and medicine in India, Latin America and China helps us to understand the particular history of the South African case itself. Conceived in response to the urgency of bioethical debates in medical anthropology, this ethnographic collection touches the borders of anthropology, philosophy, and public health"--Publisher's website.

Alternative Title

Medicine & the politics of knowledge

Subject

• Alternative medicine
• Alternative medicine > Cross-cultural studies
• Alternative medicine > South Africa
• Anthropology, Medical
• Ethnoscience
• Ethnoscience > Cross-cultural studies
• HIV infections > Social aspects > South Africa
• Healing
• Healing > Cross-cultural studies
• Health Policy
• Knowledge
• Knowledge, Sociology of
• Knowledge, Sociology of
• Medical anthropology
• Medical anthropology
• Medical innovations > Social aspects
• Medical innovations > Social aspects
• Medical technology > Social aspects
• Medical technology > Social aspects
• Medicine
• Medicine > Cross-cultural studies
• Medicine, Traditional
• South Africa
• Traditional medicine
• Traditional medicine > Cross-cultural studies
• Traditional medicine > South Africa

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Medicine and the politics of knowledge : beyond the microscope / Susan Levine -- Ethnography from southern Africa: The rings around Jonathan's eyes : HIV and AIDS medicine at the margins of administration / Oliver Human -- True believers or modern believers : HIV science and the work of the Dr Rath Foundation / Christopher Colvin-- Testing knowledge : legitimacy, healing and medicine in South Africa / Susan Levine -- Biomedical and traditional knowledge in the search for healing in Namibia / Diana Gibson and Estelle Oosthuysen -- Ethnography from the global South: Believing sceptically : rethinking health-seeking behaviours in central India / Helen Macdonald -- Experimentalité : pharmaceutical insights into anthropology's epistemologically fractured self / Donna Goldstein -- Knowledge in translation : global science, local things / Judith Farquhar -- Postscript: Trees, webs and explosions : the analogical imperative in the politics of knowledge / Fritha Langerman.

ISBN

• 9780796923929 (soft cover)
• 0796923922 (soft cover)
• 9780796923936 (pdf) (canceled/invalid)
• 0796923930 (pdf) (canceled/invalid)
• 9780796923943 (e-pub) (canceled/invalid)
• 0796923949 (e-pub) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2012526381

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library