Medicine, mobility, and power in global Africa
Subtitle: transnational health and healing
By: edited by Hansjörg Dilger, Abdoulaye Kane, and Stacey A. Langwick
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bloomington, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780253357090; 9780253223685; 9780253005328
Subjects: Medical care; Health services accessibility; Traditional medicine
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Transnational medicine, mobile experts / Stacey Langwick, Hansjörg Dilger, and Abdoulaye Kane; title: 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; title: 2. Targeting the empowered individual: transnational policy making, the global economy of aid, and the limitations of biopower in Tanzania / Hansjörg Dilger; title: 3. Health security on the move: biobureaucracy, solidarity, and the transfer of health insurance to Senegal / Angelika Wolf; title: 4. Afri-global medicine: new perspectives on epidemics, drugs, wars, migrations, and healing rituals / John M. Janzen; title: 5. AIDS policies for markets and warriors: dispossession, capital, and pharmaceuticals in Nigeria / Kristin Peterson; title: Part 2. Alternative forms of globality. 6. Assisted reproductive technologies in Mali and Togo: circulating knowledge, mobile technology, transnational efforts / Viola Hörbst; title: 7. Flows of medicine, healers, health professionals, and patients between home and host countries / Abdoulaye Kane; title: 8. Public health or public threat? Polio eradication campaigns, Islamic revival, and the materialization of state power in Niger / Adeline Masquelier; title: 9. School of deliverance: healing, exorcism, and male spirit possession in the Ghanaian Presbyterian diaspora / Adam Mohr; title: Part 3. Moving through the gaps. 10. It's just like the internet: transnational healing practices between Somaliland and the Somali diaspora / Marja Tiilikainen; title: 11. Mobility and connectedness: Chinese medical doctors in Kenya / Elisabeth Hsu; title: 12. Guinean migrant traditional healers in the global market / Clara Carvalho.