An edition of Medicine, mobility, and power in global Africa
(2012)
Medicine, mobility, and power in global Africa
transnational health and healing
by Hansjörg Dilger, Abdoulaye Kane, and Stacey Ann Langwick
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Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing
2012, Indiana University Press
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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.
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