Hansjörg (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 provoked radical shifts in the landscape of health and healthcare. Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa captures the multiple dynamics of a globalized world and its impact on medicine, health, and the delivery of healthcare in Africa-and beyond. Essays by an international group of contributors take on intractable problems such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and insufficient access to healthcare, drugs, resources, hospitals, and technologies. The movements of people and resources described here expose the growing challenges of poverty and public health, but they also show how new o… Mehr

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Produktdetails

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

ISBN: 978-0-253-00532-8
EAN: 9780253005328
Produktnummer: 20448246
Verlag: Indiana University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 358 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'699 KB
Abbildungen: 10 b&w illustrations

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).