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Rethinking Biomedicine and Governance in Africa

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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2014

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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 people in Africa are dreaming about modernity and are envisioning their own renaissance?

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Contributor: P. Wenzel Geißler

P. Wenzel Geißler, geb. 1965, lehrt Sozialanthropologie an der Universität Oslo. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Medizinethnologie und Ethnographie vor allem in Afrika sowie die Wechselwirkungen von Zeitlichkeit und Materialität in ethnographischer Feldforschung.

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    21st century African biopolitics: fuzzy fringes, cracks and undersides, neglected backwaters, and returning politics

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    P. Wenzel Geissler, Richard Rottenburg and Julia Zenker
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  • Not quite disciplined
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    Governing Malaria: How an old scourge troubles precepts in social theory

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    Rene Gerrets
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    Configuring Trans* Citizens in South Africa: Somatechnics, Self-Formation and Governmentality

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    Thamar Klein
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    Biomedical Hype and Hopes: AIDS Medicines for Africa

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    Anita Hardon
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    The Politics and Anti-politics of HIV interventions in Kenya

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    Ruth J. Prince
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  • Inherent Failure and Contradiction
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    Experimental hubris and medical powerlessness: Notes from a colonial utopia, Cameroon, 1939-1949

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    Guillaume Lachenal
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    Intellectual Property Designs: Drugs, Governance, and Nigerian (Non-)Compliance with the World Trade Organization

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    Kristin Peterson
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  • Missing the Nation State
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    Serving the City: Community-Based Malaria Control in Dar es Salaam

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    Ann H. Kelly
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    Stock-outs in global health: Pharmaceutical governance and uncertainties in the global supply of ARVs in Uganda

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    Sung-Joon Park
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    “We are not paid—they just give us”: Liberalisation and the longing for biopolitical discipline around an African HIV prevention trial

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    P. Wenzel Geissler
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    Sleeping Sickness and the Limits of ‘Biological Citizenship’

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    Peter Redfield
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Keywords for this book
Africa; Africa; Health; Health; Governance; Governance; Biopolitics; Biopolitics; Biomedicine; Biomedicine; Theories of Modernity; Theories of Modernity; Belonging; Belonging; Science; Science; Medicine; Medicine; Sociology of Medicine; Sociology of Medicine; Ethnology; Ethnology
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