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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 |
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- Cover Rethinking Biomedicine and Governance in Africa ; Content; 21st century African biopolitics: fuzzy fringes, cracks an undersides, neglected backwaters, and returning politics ; NOT QUITE DISCIPLINED ; Governing Malaria: How an old scourge troubles precepts in social theory.
- Configuring Trans* Citizens in South Africa: Somatechnics, Self-Formation and Governmentality POLITICS AGAIN ; Biomedical Hype and Hopes: AIDS Medicines for Africa ; The Politics and Anti-politics of HIV interventions in Kenya ; INHERENT FAILURE AND CONTRADICTION.
- 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 ; MISSING THE NATION STATE.
- 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 ; LONGING FOR CITIZENSHIP.
- "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.