Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa

Transnational Health and Healing

Hansjörg Dilger editor Abdoulaye Kane editor Stacey A Langwick editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Indiana University Press

Published:8th Oct '12

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Africa and medicine in a globalized world

Discusses Africa and medicine in a globalised world

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 for transforming healthcare and promoting care and healing.

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 and debates.57.3 Dec. 2014

* African Studies Review *

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.

* Journal of African Histo

ISBN: 9780253223685

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Weight: 499g

358 pages