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Medical anthropology in global Africa / edited by Kathryn Rhine, John M. Janzen, Glenn Adams, Heather Aldersey

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Editor:
Rhine, Kathryn  Search this
Author:
University of Kansas Department of Anthropology  Search this
Physical description:
180 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Africa
Date:
2014
Notes:
Outgrowth of the conference Medical Anthropology in Global Africa hosted by the University of Kansas in September 2010. (Introduction).
Contents:
Introduction / Kathryn Rhine -- Part I. Global Ethnography in Medical Anthropology. Chapter 1. Voices from the West African diaspora in Paris : Bintou's story / Carolyn Sargent -- Part II. Local and Global Worlds. Chapter 2. Imagining the whole : local medicine and global health / John M. Janzen ; Chapter 3. Vaccination programs and the sensibilisation of an Aja community in Benin / James Kennell ; Chapter 4. Shekhinah : an African utopia / Jon Kirby -- Part Ill. African Biomedicine. Chapter 5. The anthropology of African biomedicine / Claire Wendland ; Chapter 6. When the medical is political : parteiras and the state in post-war Angola / Rebecca Warne Peters ; Chapter 7. The dis/integration of day hospitals : impacts of the health systems strengthening policy in northern Mozambique / Joel Christian Reed -- Part IV. Moral Economies. Chapter 8. AIDS and the moral economies of global aid / Daniel J. Smith ; Chapter 9. Blood relations : HIV surveillance and fieldworker intimacy in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Thomas Cousins and Lindsey Reynolds ; Chapter 10. Sites of contention : AIDS politics in Senegal / Ellen Foley ; Chapter 11. Aid/ing contradictions : interventions and donor-recipient relations in Zanzibar, Tanzania / Katelin Swing Wilton -- Part V. Human Development. Chapter 12. Relationality and human development / Glenn Adams ; Chapter 13. Batukezanga's Homme comme toi : disability in Kinshasa, 35 years later / Heather Aldersey ; Chapter 14. Mothering, brothering and othering : child fosterage and kinship among Ovambo families in northern Namibia / Jill Brown & Theodore T. Bartholomew ; Chapter 15. Division of labor/division of cells : the global political economy of embryology in Ghana / Maya Mesola -- Part VI. Structural Violence. Chapter 16. Structural violence and the embodied state / Sandra J. Gray ; Chapter 17. How migrant Karimojong negotiate risk in the slums / Mary B. Sundal ; Chapter 18. Misconceptions and the mystification of infanticide in northern Ghana : ethnographic insights / Aaron Denham ; Chapter 19. When the heart grows sad : loss, absence, and the embodiment of traumatic memory among Somali Bantu refugees / Marwa Ghazali
Topic:
Medical anthropology  Search this
Globalization--Health aspects  Search this
Traditional medicine  Search this
Public health  Search this
Africans--Health and hygiene  Search this
African diaspora--Health aspects  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
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