Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa Transnational Health and Healing

Name: Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa Transnational Health and Healing
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ISBN: 9780253223685

ISBN-10: 0253223687

ISBN-13: 9780253223685

Edition: 2012

Authors: Hansjï¿½rg Dilger, Angelika Wolf, John M. Janzen, Kristin Peterson, Viola Hï¿½rbst

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Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 10/8/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 358
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.98" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Transnational Medicine, Mobile Experts




Scale as an Effect of Power



The Choreography of Global Subjection: The Traditional Birth Attendant in Contemporary Configurations of World Health




Targeting the Empowered Individual: Transnational Policy Making, the Global Economy of Aid, and the Limitations of Biopower in Tanzania




Health Security on the Move: Biobureaucracy, Solidarity, and the Transfer of Health Insurance to Senegal




Afri-global Medicine: New Perspectives on Epidemics, Drugs, Wars, Migrations, and Healing Rituals




AIDS Policies for Markets and Warriors: Dispossession, Capital, and Pharmaceuticals in Nigeria




Alternative Forms of Globality



Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Mali and Togo: Circulating Knowledge, Mobile Technology, Transnational Efforts




Flows of Medicine, Healers, Health Professionals, and Patients between Home and Host Countries




Public Health or Public Threat? Polio Eradication Campaigns, Islamic Revival, and the Materialization of State Power in Niger




School of Deliverance: Healing, Exorcism, and Male Spirit Possession in the Ghanaian Presbyterian Diaspora




Moving Through the Gaps



It's Just Like the Internet: Transnational Healing Practices between Somaliland and the Somali Diaspora




Mobility and Connectedness: Chinese Medical Doctors in Kenya




Guinean Migrant Traditional Healers in the Global Market



Contributors


Index