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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Geißler, P. Wenzel[Herausgeber]
• Rottenburg, Richard[Herausgeber]
• Zenker, Julia[Herausgeber]

Titel

Rethinking Biomedicine and Governance in Africa : Contributions from Anthropology

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• VerKörperungen/MatteRealities - Perspektiven empirischer Wissenschaftsforschung : 15

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1st ed

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• UTB Scholars Vollzugriff 2024

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• "[B]ased on a workshop organised by the research group Law Organisation Science and Technology (LOST), and held at the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany, in June 2009"--P. [7].
• Includes bibliographical references.
• 1 Editorial 2 Content 5 21st century African biopolitics: fuzzy fringes, cracks and undersides, neglected backwaters, and returning politics 7 Governing Malaria: How an old scourge troubles precepts in social theory 23 Configuring Trans* Citizens in South Africa: Somatechnics, Self-Formation and Governmentality 43 Biomedical Hype and Hopes: AIDS Medicines for Africa 77 The Politics and Anti-politics of HIV interventions in Kenya 97 Experimental hubris and medical powerlessness: Notes from a colonial utopia, Cameroon, 1939-1949 119 Intellectual Property Designs: Drugs, Governance, and Nigerian (Non-)Compliance with the World Trade Organization 141 Serving the City: Community-Based Malaria Control in Dar es Salaam 161 Stock-outs in global health: Pharmaceutical governance and uncertainties in the global supply of ARVs in Uganda 177 "We are not paid-they just give us": Liberalisation and the longing for biopolitical discipline around an African HIV prevention trial 197 Sleeping Sickness and the Limits of 'Biological Citizenship' 229 References 251 Contributors 289
• 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?
• P. Wenzel Geißler teaches social anthropology at the University of Oslo. His research interests are medicine and natural science, especially in Africa, and the interaction between temporality and materiality.
• Richard Rottenburg (Prof. Dr.) holds a chair in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Halle (Germany). He is the director of the LOST Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.
• Julia Zenker (Dr.) is currently teaching at the University of Bern (Switzerland). She is an associate member of the LOST Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Her research interests include medical anthropology, HIV/AIDS, bureaucracy and modernity studies.
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