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dc.contributor.authorWenzel Geissler, Paul
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-19 00:00:00
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T12:40:04Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T12:40:04Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier1000045
dc.identifierOCN: 1051775490en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29907
dc.description.abstractIn 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCritical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1H Africaen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursingen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine::MBNH Personal and public health / health educationen_US
dc.subject.otherafrica
dc.subject.othermedicine
dc.subject.otherpublic health
dc.subject.otherafrica
dc.subject.othermedicine
dc.subject.otherpublic health
dc.subject.otherColonial Office
dc.subject.otherGenieri
dc.subject.otherMalaria
dc.subject.otherPeanut
dc.subject.otherRice
dc.subject.otherThe Gambia
dc.titleChapter 10 The Territory of Medical Research: Experimentation in Africa's Smallest State
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.26530/oapen_530530
oapen.relation.isPublishedByf0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b
oapen.relation.isPartOfBookfdfb9dec-6847-4a9a-93cf-5fb2143e1789
oapen.relation.isFundedByd859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd
oapen.relation.isbn9780822357490
oapen.collectionWellcome
oapen.pages376
oapen.chapternumber10
oapen.grant.number077430, 081507
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Colonial Office - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Office; Genieri - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genieri; Malaria - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria; Peanut - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut; Public health - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_health; Rice - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice; The Gambia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gambia
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