Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa
Hansj Rg Dilger
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Description for Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa
Hardcover. Discusses Africa and medicine in a globalised world Editor(s): Dilger, Hansjorg; Kane, Abdoulaye; Langwick, Stacey Ann. Num Pages: 358 pages, 10 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; GTB; JKS; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 636.
Recent political, social, and economic changes in Africa have provoked radical shifts in the landscape of health and healthcare. Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa 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 ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
Number of Pages
358
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253357090
SKU
V9780253357090
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About Hansj Rg Dilger
Hansjörg Dilger is a junior professor of social and cultural anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin. He is author of Living with Aids, Illness, Death, and Social Relationships in Africa: An Ethnography (in German). Abdoulaye Kane is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Florida. He is author of Tontines, Solidarity Funds, and Street Bankers: The ... Read more
Reviews for Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa
This skillfully edited collection clears a path for further new and exciting work around topics of mobility, transnational health, and global healing.
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
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 ... Read more
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
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 ... Read more