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Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives (Cambridge Centre of African Studies)

Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives (Cambridge Centre of African Studies)

â€œThis 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 partsâ€¦â€ â€”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:Â P. Wenzel Geissler;Â Murray Last;Â Rebecca Marsland;Â Lotte Meinert;Â Benson A. Mulemi; Â Ruth J. Prince; andÂ Noemi Tousignant.
Country USA
Brand Ohio University Press
Manufacturer Ohio University Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780821420584
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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