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Para-States and Medical Science : Making African Global Health /

In Para-States and Medical Science, P. Wenzel Geissler and the contributors examine how medicine and public health in Africa have been transformed as a result of economic and political liberalization and globalization, intertwined with epidemiological and technological changes. The resulting fragmen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Geissler, Wenzel (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Treating to prevent HIV : population trials and experimental societies / Vinh-Kim Nguyen
  • Trialing drugs, creating publics : medical research, leprosy control, and the construction of a public health sphere in post-1945 Nigeria / John Manton
  • Lessons in medical nihilism : virus hunters, neoliberalism, and the AIDS crisis in Cameroon / Guillaume Lachenal
  • What future remains? Remembering an African place of science / Paul Wenzel Geissler
  • International health and proliferation of "partnerships" : (Un)intended boost for state institutions in Tanzania? / Rene Gerrets
  • Working and surviving : government employees on ART in Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte
  • Molecular and municipal politics : research and regulation in Dakar / Branwyn Poleykett
  • The work of the virus : cutting and creating relations in an ART project / Lotte Meinert
  • The blue warriors : science, democracy, and public health in Malaria control experiments / Uli Beisel
  • The territory of medical research : experimentation in Africa's smallest state / Ann Kelly
  • Adventures of African Nevirapine : the political biography of a magic bullet / Didier Fassin.