Medicine, mobility, and power in global Africa : transnational health and healing /

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Recent political, social, and economic changes in Africa have provoked radical shifts in the landscape of health and healthcare. Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa captures the multiple dynamics of a globalized world and its impact on medicine, health, and the delivery of healthcare in A...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dilger, Hansjörg (Editor ), Kane, Abdoulaye (Editor ), Langwick, Stacey Ann (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2012.
Temas:
Medical care > Africa.
Health services accessibility > Africa.
Traditional medicine > Africa.
National health services.
Medical care.
Health Services
Delivery of Health Care
Internationality
Population Dynamics
Socioeconomic Factors
State Medicine
Patient Care
Services de santé > Accessibilité > Afrique.
Services de santé.
Prestation de soins.
Soins médicaux > Afrique.
Soins médicaux.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disease & Health Issues.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
National health services
Health services accessibility
Medical care
Traditional medicine
Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Transnational medicine, mobile experts / Stacey Langwick, Hansjörg Dilger, and Abdoulaye Kane
  • Part 1. Scale as an effect of power. 1. The choreography of global subjection: the traditional birth attendant in contemporary configurations of world health / Stacey A. Langwick
  • 2. Targeting the empowered individual: transnational policy making, the global economy of aid, and the limitations of biopower in Tanzania / Hansjörg Dilger
  • 3. Health security on the move: biobureaucracy, solidarity, and the transfer of health insurance to Senegal / Angelika Wolf
  • 4. Afri-global medicine: new perspectives on epidemics, drugs, wars, migrations, and healing rituals / John M. Janzen
  • 5. AIDS policies for markets and warriors: dispossession, capital, and pharmaceuticals in Nigeria / Kristin Peterson
  • Part 2. Alternative forms of globality. 6. Assisted reproductive technologies in Mali and Togo: circulating knowledge, mobile technology, transnational efforts / Viola Hörbst
  • 7. Flows of medicine, healers, health professionals, and patients between home and host countries / Abdoulaye Kane
  • 8. Public health or public threat? Polio eradication campaigns, Islamic revival, and the materialization of state power in Niger / Adeline Masquelier
  • 9. School of deliverance: healing, exorcism, and male spirit possession in the Ghanaian Presbyterian diaspora / Adam Mohr
  • Part 3. Moving through the gaps. 10. It's just like the internet: transnational healing practices between Somaliland and the Somali diaspora / Marja Tiilikainen
  • 11. Mobility and connectedness: Chinese medical doctors in Kenya / Elisabeth Hsu
  • 12. Guinean migrant traditional healers in the global market / Clara Carvalho.

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