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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2015.
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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.