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transnational health and healing

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Medicine, mobility, and power in global Africa

transnational health and healing

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358

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Cover of: Medicine, mobility, and power in global Africa
Medicine, mobility, and power in global Africa: transnational health and healing
2012, Indiana University Press
in English
Cover of: Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa
Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing
2012, Indiana University Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Transnational medicine, mobile experts / Stacey Langwick, Hansjörg Dilger, and Abdoulaye Kane
Part 1. Scale as an effect of 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 Hörbst
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 healing practices between 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.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

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Bloomington, Ind

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
362.1096
Library of Congress
RA545 .M47 2012, RA545, RA545.M47 2012

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
358

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25275943M
ISBN 13
9780253357090, 9780253223685, 9780253005328
LCCN
2012005731
OCLC/WorldCat
707212781

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