Hansjoerg (Hrsg.) Dilger

Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa

Transnational Health and Healing

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Recent political, social, and economic changes in Africa have provokedradical shifts in the landscape of health and healthcare. Medicine, Mobility, andPower in Global Africa captures the multiple dynamics of a globalized world and itsimpact on medicine, health, and the delivery of healthcare in Africa--and beyond.Essays by an international group of contributors take on intractable problems suchas HIV/AIDS, malaria, and insufficient access to healthcare, drugs, resources, hospitals, and technologies. The movements of people and resources described hereexpose the growing challenges of poverty and public health, but they also show hownew opportu… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Kane, Abdoulaye (Hrsg.) / Langwick, Stacey A. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-253-35709-0
EAN: 9780253357090
Produktnummer: 23088131
Verlag: Indiana University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 358 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.0 cm 635 g
Abbildungen: 10 b&w illustrations
Gewicht: 635
Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor

Hansjörg Dilger is a junior professor of social and cultural anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin. He is author of Living with Aids, Illness, Death, and Social Relationships in Africa: An Ethnography (in German).Abdoulaye Kane is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Florida. He is author of Tontines, Solidarity Funds, and Street Bankers: The Universe of Informal Financial Practices in Africa and Among African Immigants in France (in French).Stacey A. Langwick is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University. She is author of Bodies, Politics, and African Healing: The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania (IUP, 2011).