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Para-States and Medical Science - Making African Global Health (Paperback)
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Para-States and Medical Science - Making African Global Health (Paperback)
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
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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 have not supplanted the primacy of the
nation-state in Africa. Although not necessarily stable or
responsive, national governments remain crucial in medical care,
both as employers of health care professionals and as sources of
regulation, access, and - albeit sometimes counterintuitively -
trust for their people. "The state" has morphed into the
"para-state" - not a monolithic and predictable source of
sovereignty and governance, but a shifting, and at times ephemeral,
figure. Tracing the emergence of the "global health" paradigm in
Africa in the treatment of HIV, malaria, and leprosy, this book
challenges familiar notions of African statehood as weak or
illegitimate by elaborating complex new frameworks of
governmentality that can be simultaneously functioning and
dysfunctional. Contributors. Uli Beisel, Didier Fassin, P. Wenzel
Geissler, Rene Gerrets, Ann Kelly, Guillaume Lachenal, John Manton,
Lotte Meinert, Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Branwyn Poleykett, Susan Reynolds
Whyte
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Imprint: |
Duke University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography |
Release date: |
2015 |
First published: |
2015 |
Editors: |
Paul Wenzel Geissler
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Dimensions: |
228 x 153 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
369 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8223-5749-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Medicine >
General issues >
Health systems & services >
General
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LSN: |
0-8223-5749-6 |
Barcode: |
9780822357490 |
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