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Medicine, mobility, and power in global Africa transnational health and healing  Cover Image E-book E-book

Medicine, mobility, and power in global Africa [electronic resource] : transnational health and healing / edited by Hansjörg Dilger, Abdoulaye Kane, and Stacey A. Langwick.

Dilger, Hansjörg. (Added Author). Kane, Abdoulaye. (Added Author). Langwick, Stacey Ann. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 0253005329 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 9780253005328 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 348 p.) ill.
  • Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2012.

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Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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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Description based on print version record.
Subject: Medical care > Africa.
Traditional medicine > Africa.
HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues
Health services accessibility.
Medical care.
Health services accessibility > Africa.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues
MEDICAL / Public Health
MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery
MEDICAL / Health Policy
MEDICAL / Diseases
Traditional medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General
Africa.
Genre: Electronic books.
Electronic books.

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