Medicine, mobility, and power in glo...
Langwick, Stacey Ann.

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  • Medicine, mobility, and power in global Africa = transnational healthand healing /
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    Title/Author: Medicine, mobility, and power in global Africa/ edited by HansJörg Dilger, Abdoulaye Kane, and Stacey A. Langwick.
    Reminder of title: transnational healthand healing /
    other author: Langwick, Stacey Ann.
    Published: Bloomington, Ind. :Indiana University Press, : 2012.,
    Description: 1 online resource (358 p.).
    Notes: Includes index.
    [NT 15003449]: Introduction: Transnational medicine, mobile experts / Stacey Langwick, HansJörg Dilger, and Abdoulaye Kane -- Part 1. Scale as an effectof 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 Horbst -- 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 healingpracticesbetween 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.
    Subject: Traditional medicine - Africa. -
    Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780253005328/Full text available:
    ISBN: 9780253005328 (electronic bk.)
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