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Rethinking biomedicine and governance in Africa : contributions from anthropology
- Title
- Rethinking biomedicine and governance in Africa : contributions from anthropology / Paul Wenzel Geissler, Richard Rottenburg, Julia Zenker (eds.).
- Publication
- Bielefeld : Transcript, ©2012.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 291 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- MatteRealities/VerKörperungen : Perspectives from empirical science studies ; v. 15
- Uniform Title
- MatteRealities/VerKörperungen ; v. 15.
- Subject
- Medical policy > Africa > Congresses
- Medical ethics > Africa > Congresses
- Medical anthropology > Africa > Congresses
- Politics, Practical
- Health Services Accessibility > history
- Developing Countries
- Healthcare Disparities > ethics
- Politics
- politics
- Politics, Practical
- Medical anthropology
- Medical ethics
- Medical policy
- Gesundheitswesen
- Biomedizin
- Biopolitik
- Governance
- Medicinsk antropologi
- Medicinsk etik
- Politik
- Africa
- Africa
- Subsaharisches Afrika
- Afrika
- Genre/Form
- Congress
- proceedings (reports)
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Actes de congrès.
- Note
- "[B]ased on a workshop organised by the research group Law Organisation Science and Technology (LOST), and held at the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany, in June 2009"--P. [7].
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- 21st century African biopolitics : fuzzy fringes, cracks and undersides, neglected backwaters, and returning politics / P. Wenzel Geissler, Richard Rottenburg, Julia Zenker -- Not quite disciplined -- Governing malaria : how an old scourge troubles precepts in social theory / Rene Gerrets -- Configuring trans* citizens in South Africa : somatechnics, self-formation and governmentality / Thamar Klein -- Politics again -- Biomedical hype and hopes : AIDS medicines for Africa / Anita Hardon -- The politics and anti-politics of HIV interventions in Kenya / Ruth J. Prince -- Inherent failure and contradiction -- Experimental hubris and medical powerlessness : notes from a colonial utopia, Cameroon, 1939-1949 / Guillaume Lachenal -- Intellectual property designs : drugs, governance, and Nigerian (non- )compliance with the World Trade Organization / Kristin Peterson -- Missing the nation state -- Serving the city : community-based malaria control in Dar es Salaam / Ann H. Kelly -- Stock-outs in global health : pharmaceutical governance and uncertainties in the global supply of ARVs in Uganda / Sung-Joon Park -- Longing for citizenship -- "We are not paid : they just give us" : liberalisation and the longing for biopolitical discipline around an African HIV prevention trial / P. Wenzel Geissler -- Sleeping sickness and the limits of 'Biological citizenship' / Peter Redfield -- References -- Contributors.
- ISBN
- 9783837620283
- 383762028X
- LCCN
- 2012510857
- 99956544367
- OCLC
- ocn819379312
- 819379312
- SCSB-1668085
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library