Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa
Transnational Health and Healing
Herausgeber: Dilger, Hansjarg; Langwick, Stacey A; Kane, Abdoulaye
Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa
Transnational Health and Healing
Herausgeber: Dilger, Hansjarg; Langwick, Stacey A; Kane, Abdoulaye
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The movements of people and resources described here expose the growing challenges of poverty and public health, but they show how new opportunities have been created for transforming healthcare and promoting care and healing.
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The movements of people and resources described here expose the growing challenges of poverty and public health, but they show how new opportunities have been created for transforming healthcare and promoting care and healing.
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- Verlag: Indiana University Press
- Seitenzahl: 358
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2012
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
- Gewicht: 522g
- ISBN-13: 9780253223685
- ISBN-10: 0253223687
- Artikelnr.: 33610701
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- 06621 890
- Verlag: Indiana University Press
- Seitenzahl: 358
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2012
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
- Gewicht: 522g
- ISBN-13: 9780253223685
- ISBN-10: 0253223687
- Artikelnr.: 33610701
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- 06621 890
Hansjörg Dilger is a junior professor of social and cultural anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin. He is author of Living with Aids, Illness, Death, and Social Relationships in Africa: An Ethnography (in German). Abdoulaye Kane is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Florida. He is author of Tontines, Solidarity Funds, and Street Bankers: The Universe of Informal Financial Practices in Africa and Among African Immigants in France (in French). Stacey A. Langwick is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University. She is author of Bodies, Politics, and African Healing: The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania (IUP, 2011).
Hansjörg Dilger, Abdoulaye Kane, and Stacey A. Langwick Introduction
Part 1. Scale as an Effect of Power
1. The Choreography of Global Subjection: The Traditional Birth Attendant
in Contemporary Configurations of World Health Stacey A. Langwick
2. Targeting the Empowered Individual: Transnational Policy-Making, the
Global Economy of Aid and the Limitations of 'Biopower' in Tanzania
Hansjörg Dilger
3. Health Security on the Move. Biobureaucracy, Solidarity and the Transfer
of Health Insurance to Senegal Angelika Wolf
4. Afri-global Medicine: New Perspectives on Epidemics, Drugs, Wars,
Migrations, and Healing-rituals John Janzen
5. AIDS Policies for Markets and Warriors: Dispossession, Capital, and
Pharmaceuticals in Nigeria Kristin Peterson
Part 2. Alternative Forms of Globality
6. Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Mali and Togo: Circulating
Knowledge, Mobile Technology, Transnational Efforts Viola Hörbst
7. Flows of Medicine, Healers, Health Professionals, and Patients between
Home and Host Countries Abdoulaye Kane
8. Public Health or Public Threat? Polio Eradication Campaigns, Islamic
Revival, and the Materialization of State Power in Niger Adeline Masquelier
9. School of Deliverance: Healing, Exorcism and Male Spirit Possession in
the Ghanaian Presbyterian Diaspora Adam Mohr
Part 3. Moving through the Gaps
10. It's Just Like the Internet: Transnational Healing Practices between
Somaliland and the Somali Diaspora Marja Tiilikainen
11. Mobility and Connectedness: Chinese Medical Doctors in Kenya Elisabeth
Hsu
12. Guinean Migrant Traditional Healers in the Global Market Clara Carvalho
Contributors
Index
Part 1. Scale as an Effect of Power
1. The Choreography of Global Subjection: The Traditional Birth Attendant
in Contemporary Configurations of World Health Stacey A. Langwick
2. Targeting the Empowered Individual: Transnational Policy-Making, the
Global Economy of Aid and the Limitations of 'Biopower' in Tanzania
Hansjörg Dilger
3. Health Security on the Move. Biobureaucracy, Solidarity and the Transfer
of Health Insurance to Senegal Angelika Wolf
4. Afri-global Medicine: New Perspectives on Epidemics, Drugs, Wars,
Migrations, and Healing-rituals John Janzen
5. AIDS Policies for Markets and Warriors: Dispossession, Capital, and
Pharmaceuticals in Nigeria Kristin Peterson
Part 2. Alternative Forms of Globality
6. Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Mali and Togo: Circulating
Knowledge, Mobile Technology, Transnational Efforts Viola Hörbst
7. Flows of Medicine, Healers, Health Professionals, and Patients between
Home and Host Countries Abdoulaye Kane
8. Public Health or Public Threat? Polio Eradication Campaigns, Islamic
Revival, and the Materialization of State Power in Niger Adeline Masquelier
9. School of Deliverance: Healing, Exorcism and Male Spirit Possession in
the Ghanaian Presbyterian Diaspora Adam Mohr
Part 3. Moving through the Gaps
10. It's Just Like the Internet: Transnational Healing Practices between
Somaliland and the Somali Diaspora Marja Tiilikainen
11. Mobility and Connectedness: Chinese Medical Doctors in Kenya Elisabeth
Hsu
12. Guinean Migrant Traditional Healers in the Global Market Clara Carvalho
Contributors
Index
Hansjörg Dilger, Abdoulaye Kane, and Stacey A. Langwick Introduction
Part 1. Scale as an Effect of Power
1. The Choreography of Global Subjection: The Traditional Birth Attendant
in Contemporary Configurations of World Health Stacey A. Langwick
2. Targeting the Empowered Individual: Transnational Policy-Making, the
Global Economy of Aid and the Limitations of 'Biopower' in Tanzania
Hansjörg Dilger
3. Health Security on the Move. Biobureaucracy, Solidarity and the Transfer
of Health Insurance to Senegal Angelika Wolf
4. Afri-global Medicine: New Perspectives on Epidemics, Drugs, Wars,
Migrations, and Healing-rituals John Janzen
5. AIDS Policies for Markets and Warriors: Dispossession, Capital, and
Pharmaceuticals in Nigeria Kristin Peterson
Part 2. Alternative Forms of Globality
6. Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Mali and Togo: Circulating
Knowledge, Mobile Technology, Transnational Efforts Viola Hörbst
7. Flows of Medicine, Healers, Health Professionals, and Patients between
Home and Host Countries Abdoulaye Kane
8. Public Health or Public Threat? Polio Eradication Campaigns, Islamic
Revival, and the Materialization of State Power in Niger Adeline Masquelier
9. School of Deliverance: Healing, Exorcism and Male Spirit Possession in
the Ghanaian Presbyterian Diaspora Adam Mohr
Part 3. Moving through the Gaps
10. It's Just Like the Internet: Transnational Healing Practices between
Somaliland and the Somali Diaspora Marja Tiilikainen
11. Mobility and Connectedness: Chinese Medical Doctors in Kenya Elisabeth
Hsu
12. Guinean Migrant Traditional Healers in the Global Market Clara Carvalho
Contributors
Index
Part 1. Scale as an Effect of Power
1. The Choreography of Global Subjection: The Traditional Birth Attendant
in Contemporary Configurations of World Health Stacey A. Langwick
2. Targeting the Empowered Individual: Transnational Policy-Making, the
Global Economy of Aid and the Limitations of 'Biopower' in Tanzania
Hansjörg Dilger
3. Health Security on the Move. Biobureaucracy, Solidarity and the Transfer
of Health Insurance to Senegal Angelika Wolf
4. Afri-global Medicine: New Perspectives on Epidemics, Drugs, Wars,
Migrations, and Healing-rituals John Janzen
5. AIDS Policies for Markets and Warriors: Dispossession, Capital, and
Pharmaceuticals in Nigeria Kristin Peterson
Part 2. Alternative Forms of Globality
6. Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Mali and Togo: Circulating
Knowledge, Mobile Technology, Transnational Efforts Viola Hörbst
7. Flows of Medicine, Healers, Health Professionals, and Patients between
Home and Host Countries Abdoulaye Kane
8. Public Health or Public Threat? Polio Eradication Campaigns, Islamic
Revival, and the Materialization of State Power in Niger Adeline Masquelier
9. School of Deliverance: Healing, Exorcism and Male Spirit Possession in
the Ghanaian Presbyterian Diaspora Adam Mohr
Part 3. Moving through the Gaps
10. It's Just Like the Internet: Transnational Healing Practices between
Somaliland and the Somali Diaspora Marja Tiilikainen
11. Mobility and Connectedness: Chinese Medical Doctors in Kenya Elisabeth
Hsu
12. Guinean Migrant Traditional Healers in the Global Market Clara Carvalho
Contributors
Index