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Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives

Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives

Prince, Ruth J.

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Centre of African Studies

Medical ReferenceAfrican HistoryAnthropology

ISBN10: 0821420577
ISBN13: 9780821420577
Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr
Published: Nov 26 2013
Pages: 260
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
This volume contributes significantly to the rapidly developing scholarship of public health and global health in African contexts, considered either as a collection of excellent chapters or taken as the sum of its parts... -Social History of Medicine

This volume explores how medical professionals and patients, government officials, and ordinary citizens approach questions of public health as they navigate contemporary landscapes of NGOs and transnational projects, faltering state services, and expanding privatization. Its contributors analyze the relations between the public and the private providers of public health, from the state to new global biopolitical formations of political institutions, markets, human populations, and health. Tensions and ambiguities animate these complex relationships, suggesting that the question of what public health actually is in Africa cannot be taken for granted. Offering historical and ethnographic analyses, the volume develops an anthropology of public health in Africa.

Contributors: P. Wenzel Geissler; Murray Last; Rebecca Marsland; Lotte Meinert; Benson A. Mulemi; Ruth J. Prince; and Noemi Tousignant.

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