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
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-13
9780822357490
eBay Product ID (ePID)
209165300
Product Key Features
Author
Paul Wenzel Geissler
Publication Name
Para-States and Medical Science: Making African Global Health
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Medicine, Anthropology, History
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
376 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
513g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Paul Wenzel Geissler
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