Para-states and medical science : making African global health /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Geissler, Wenzel (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Series:	Critical global health.
Subjects:	Medical care > Research > Africa. Medical policy > Africa. AIDS (Disease) > Treatment > Africa. Science. HIV infections. Health. Slow virus diseases. Virus diseases. Immunological deficiency syndromes. Lentivirus infections. Medical care. Medical personnel. Physical sciences. Social control. Sexually transmitted diseases. Retrovirus infections. Diseases. Immunologic diseases. Sociology. Social sciences. AIDS (Disease) Medical policy. Public health. Research. Science Medicine HIV Infections Public Policy Health Slow Virus Diseases Environment and Public Health Virus Diseases Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes Lentivirus Infections Delivery of Health Care Social Control Policies Health Occupations Natural Science Disciplines Population Characteristics Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral Social Control, Formal Disciplines and Occupations Sexually Transmitted Diseases Retroviridae Infections Disease Policy Immune System Diseases Sociology Social Sciences RNA Virus Infections Health Care Economics and Organizations Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Health Policy Public Health Research Health Personnel Health Workforce Patient Care Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Treating to prevent HIV : population trials and experimental societies / Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Trialing drugs, creating publics : medical research, leprosy control, and the construction of a public health sphere in post-1945 Nigeria / John Manton
Lessons in medical nihilism : virus hunters, neoliberalism, and the AIDS crisis in Cameroon / Guillaume Lachenal
What future remains? Remembering an African place of science / Paul Wenzel Geissler
International health and proliferation of "partnerships" : (Un)intended boost for state institutions in Tanzania? / Rene Gerrets
Working and surviving : government employees on ART in Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte
Molecular and municipal politics : research and regulation in Dakar / Branwyn Poleykett
The work of the virus : cutting and creating relations in an ART project / Lotte Meinert
The blue warriors : science, democracy, and public health in Malaria control experiments / Uli Beisel
The territory of medical research : experimentation in Africa's smallest state / Ann Kelly
Adventures of African Nevirapine : the political biography of a magic bullet / Didier Fassin.