| Titre : |
Medicine, mobility, and power in global Africa : transnational health and healing |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Hansjörg Dilger, Editeur scientifique ; Abdoulaye Elimane Kane (1941-....), Editeur scientifique ; Stacey Ann Langwick, Editeur scientifique |
| Editeur : |
Bloomington - Indiana [États-Unis] : Indiana University Press |
| Année de publication : |
c2012 |
| Importance : |
vi, 348 p. |
| Présentation : |
ill. |
| Format : |
24 cm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-253-22368-5 |
| Note générale : |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
Ethnomédecine -- Afrique ; Santé publique -- Administration -- Afrique
|
| Index. décimale : |
362.1096 |
| Note de contenu : |
Introduction: Transnational medicine, mobile experts / Stacey Langwick, Hansjörg Dilger, and Abdoulaye Kane ; Part 1. Scale as an effect of power. 1. The choreography of global subjection: the traditional birth attendant in contemporary configurations of world health / Stacey A. Langwick ; 2. Targeting the empowered individual: transnational policy making, the global economy of aid, and the limitations of biopower in Tanzania / Hansjörg Dilger ; 3. Health security on the move: biobureaucracy, solidarity, and the transfer of health insurance to Senegal / Angelika Wolf ; 4. Afri-global medicine: new perspectives on epidemics, drugs, wars, migrations, and healing rituals / John M. Janzen ; 5. AIDS policies for markets and warriors: dispossession, capital, and pharmaceuticals in Nigeria / Kristin Peterson ; Part 2. Alternative forms of globality. 6. Assisted reproductive technologies in Mali and Togo: circulating knowledge, mobile technology, transnational efforts / Viola Hörbst ; 7. Flows of medicine, healers, health professionals, and patients between home and host countries / Abdoulaye Kane ; 8. Public health or public threat? Polio eradication campaigns, Islamic revival, and the materialization of state power in Niger / Adeline Masquelier ; 9. School of deliverance: healing, exorcism, and male spirit possession in the Ghanaian Presbyterian diaspora / Adam Mohr ; Part 3. Moving through the gaps. 10. It's just like the internet: transnational healing practices between Somaliland and the Somali diaspora / Marja Tiilikainen ; 11. Mobility and connectedness: Chinese medical doctors in Kenya / Elisabeth Hsu ; 12. Guinean migrant traditional healers in the global market / Clara Carvalho. |
Medicine, mobility, and power in global Africa : transnational health and healing [texte imprimé] / Hansjörg Dilger, Editeur scientifique ; Abdoulaye Elimane Kane (1941-....), Editeur scientifique ; Stacey Ann Langwick, Editeur scientifique . - Bloomington - Indiana (États-Unis) : Indiana University Press, c2012 . - vi, 348 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN : 978-0-253-22368-5 Includes bibliographical references and index Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
Ethnomédecine -- Afrique ; Santé publique -- Administration -- Afrique
|
| Index. décimale : |
362.1096 |
| Note de contenu : |
Introduction: Transnational medicine, mobile experts / Stacey Langwick, Hansjörg Dilger, and Abdoulaye Kane ; Part 1. Scale as an effect of power. 1. The choreography of global subjection: the traditional birth attendant in contemporary configurations of world health / Stacey A. Langwick ; 2. Targeting the empowered individual: transnational policy making, the global economy of aid, and the limitations of biopower in Tanzania / Hansjörg Dilger ; 3. Health security on the move: biobureaucracy, solidarity, and the transfer of health insurance to Senegal / Angelika Wolf ; 4. Afri-global medicine: new perspectives on epidemics, drugs, wars, migrations, and healing rituals / John M. Janzen ; 5. AIDS policies for markets and warriors: dispossession, capital, and pharmaceuticals in Nigeria / Kristin Peterson ; Part 2. Alternative forms of globality. 6. Assisted reproductive technologies in Mali and Togo: circulating knowledge, mobile technology, transnational efforts / Viola Hörbst ; 7. Flows of medicine, healers, health professionals, and patients between home and host countries / Abdoulaye Kane ; 8. Public health or public threat? Polio eradication campaigns, Islamic revival, and the materialization of state power in Niger / Adeline Masquelier ; 9. School of deliverance: healing, exorcism, and male spirit possession in the Ghanaian Presbyterian diaspora / Adam Mohr ; Part 3. Moving through the gaps. 10. It's just like the internet: transnational healing practices between Somaliland and the Somali diaspora / Marja Tiilikainen ; 11. Mobility and connectedness: Chinese medical doctors in Kenya / Elisabeth Hsu ; 12. Guinean migrant traditional healers in the global market / Clara Carvalho. |
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