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Rethinking 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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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transcript Verlag,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 peopl. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 1306999804 9781306999809 3839420288 9783839420287 |