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Para-states and medical science :

082237627X

1322879923

9780822376279

9781322879925

0822357356

0822357496

9780822357353

9780822357490

Para-states and medical science :

[Book]

making African global health /

P. Wenzel Geissler, editor.

Durham :

Duke University Press,

2015.

©2015

1 online resource (369 pages) :

illustrations

Critical global health

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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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 fragmented medical science landscape is shaped and sustained by transnational flows of expertise and resources. NGOs, universities, pharmaceutical companies and other nonstate actors now play a significant role in medical research and treatment. But as the contributors to this volume argue, these groups ha.

JSTOR

22573/ctv1124h0t

Para-states and medical science.

9780822357353

AIDS (Disease)-- Treatment-- Africa.

Medical care-- Research-- Africa.

Medical policy-- Africa.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.

Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena

Delivery of Health Care.

Disciplines and Occupations

Disease.

Environment and Public Health

Health Care Economics and Organizations

Health Occupations.

Health Policy.

Health.

HIV Infections.

Immune System Diseases.

Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes.

Lentivirus Infections.

Medicine.

Natural Science Disciplines.

Policy.

Population Characteristics.

Public Health.

Public Policy.

Research.

Retroviridae Infections.

RNA Virus Infections.

Science.

Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral.

Sexually Transmitted Diseases.

Slow Virus Diseases.

Social Control Policies.

Social Control, Formal.

Social Sciences.

Sociology.

Virus Diseases.

AIDS (Disease)-- Treatment.

MEDICAL / Public Health

Medical care-- Research.

Medical policy.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Security.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Services & Welfare.

Africa.

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HIS-- 001000

MED-- 078000

POL-- 019000

POL-- 027000

SOC-- 002010

Geissler, Wenzel

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