{"product_id":"medicine-mobility-and-power-in-global-africa-transnational-health-and-healing-paperback-softback-9780253223685","title":"Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa; Transnational Health and Healing (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253223685","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMedicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTransnational Health and Healing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHansjörg Dilger (Edited by), Angelika Wolf (Contributions by), John M. Janzen (Contributions by), Kristin Peterson (Contributions by), Viola Hörbst (Contributions by), Abdoulaye Kane (Contributions by), Adeline Masquelier (Contributions by), Adam Mohr (Contributions by), Marja Tiilikainen (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253223685\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 8 October 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e358 pages, 10 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.499 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Focusing on globalization and Africa . . . this volume underscores the interconnectedness and the imbalances during a time of neoliberal reform.\"—Elisha P. Renne, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Michigan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This interesting and timely volume shows how African health issues can no longer be thought of as being sealed within Africa—that transnational flows are fundamentally shaping health practices.\"—Mark Hunter, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Toronto Scarborough\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This skillfully edited collection clears a path for further new and exciting work around topics of mobility, transnational health, and global healing.\"—\u003ci\u003eBulletin of the History of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"For medical anthropologists who work in Africa, the Dilger, Kanye, and Langwick volume is almost obligatory, and reading it will likely lead to a pleasant afternoon filled with recognizable names and debates.57.3 Dec. 2014\"—\u003ci\u003eAfrican Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Medicine, Mobility and Power in Global Africa is a welcome addition to a growing body of scholarship examining postcolonial medicine, health, and healing in Africa.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of African History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecent political, social, and economic changes in Africa have provoked radical shifts in the landscape of health and healthcare. \u003ci\u003eMedicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa\u003c\/i\u003e captures the multiple dynamics of a globalized world and its impact on medicine, health, and the delivery of healthcare in Africa—and beyond. Essays by an international group of contributors take on intractable problems such as HIV\/AIDS, malaria, and insufficient access to healthcare, drugs, resources, hospitals, and technologies. The movements of people and resources described here expose the growing challenges of poverty and public health, but they also show how new opportunities have been created for transforming healthcare and promoting care and healing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eHansjörg Dilger, Abdoulaye Kane, and Stacey A. Langwick Introduction \u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Scale as an Effect of Power\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Choreography of Global Subjection: The Traditional Birth Attendant in Contemporary Configurations of World Health Stacey A. Langwick \u003cbr\u003e 2. Targeting the Empowered Individual: Transnational Policy-Making, the Global Economy of Aid and the Limitations of 'Biopower' in Tanzania Hansjörg Dilger\u003cbr\u003e 3. Health Security on the Move. Biobureaucracy, Solidarity and the Transfer of Health Insurance to Senegal Angelika Wolf\u003cbr\u003e 4. Afri-global Medicine: New Perspectives on Epidemics, Drugs, Wars, Migrations, and Healing-rituals John Janzen\u003cbr\u003e 5. AIDS Policies for Markets and Warriors: Dispossession, Capital, and Pharmaceuticals in Nigeria Kristin Peterson\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Alternative Forms of Globality\u003cbr\u003e 6. Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Mali and Togo: Circulating Knowledge, Mobile Technology, Transnational Efforts Viola Hörbst\u003cbr\u003e 7. Flows of Medicine, Healers, Health Professionals, and Patients between Home and Host Countries Abdoulaye Kane\u003cbr\u003e 8. Public Health or Public Threat? Polio Eradication Campaigns, Islamic Revival, and the Materialization of State Power in Niger Adeline Masquelier\u003cbr\u003e 9. School of Deliverance: Healing, Exorcism and Male Spirit Possession in the Ghanaian Presbyterian Diaspora Adam Mohr\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. Moving through the Gaps\u003cbr\u003e 10. It's Just Like the Internet: Transnational Healing Practices between Somaliland and the Somali Diaspora Marja Tiilikainen\u003cbr\u003e 11. Mobility and Connectedness: Chinese Medical Doctors in Kenya Elisabeth Hsu\u003cbr\u003e 12. Guinean Migrant Traditional Healers in the Global Market Clara Carvalho\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52526020886808,"sku":"9780253223685","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/medicine-mobility-and-power-in-global-africa-transnational-health-and-healing-paperback-softback-9780253223685","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}