Screen LibraryRethinking biomedicine and governance in Africa : contributions from anthropology /
In the domain of health, the relation between bodies, citizenship, nations and governments has changed beyond recognition over the past four decades, especially in Africa. In many regions, populations are now faced with a total lack of medical care, and the disciplinary regimes of modernity are fain...
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transcript Verlag,
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| Publisher Address: | Bielefeld : |
| Publication Dates: |
2014. ©2012 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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VerKörperungen/MatteRealities - Perspektiven empirischer Wissenschaftsforschung ;
volume 15 |
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| Summary: |
In the domain of health, the relation between bodies, citizenship, nations and governments has changed beyond recognition over the past four decades, especially in Africa. In many regions, populations are now faced with a total lack of medical care, and the disciplinary regimes of modernity are faint memories. In this situation, new critical insights beyond the critique of old modernization and the disciplinary regimes of imperial times are needed. How can we keep up our sophisticated criticism of knowledge regimes and our doubts with regard to narratives of development, when so many people in Africa are dreaming about modernity and are envisioning their own renaissance? |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (292 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783839420287 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | GN296 |
| CLC: | R-05 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Editorial -- Content -- 21 / Governing Malaria: How an old scourge troubles precepts in social theory / Configuring Trans* Citizens in South Africa: Somatechnics, Self-Formation and Governmentality / Biomedical Hype and Hopes: AIDS Medicines for Africa / The Politics and Anti-politics of HIV interventions in Kenya / Experimental hubris and medical powerlessness: Notes from a colonial utopia, Cameroon, 1939-1949 / Intellectual Property Designs: Drugs, Governance, and Nigerian (Non-)Compliance with the World Trade Organization / Serving the City: Community-Based Malaria Control in Dar es Salaam / Stock-outs in global health: Pharmaceutical governance and uncertainties in the global supply of ARVs in Uganda / "We are not paid they just give us": Liberalisation and the longing for biopolitical discipline around an African HIV prevention trial / Sleeping Sickness and the Limits of Biological Citizenship / References -- Contributors. |