Rethinking Biomedicine and Governance in Africa : : Contributions from Anthropology / / ed. by Julia Zenker, Richard Rottenburg, P. Wenzel Geißler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Geissler, P. Wenzel,; Gerrets, Rene,; Hardon, Anita,; Kelly, Ann H.,; Klein, Thamar,; Lachenal, Guillaume,; Park, Sung-Joon,; Peterson, Kristin,; Prince, Ruth J.,; Redfield, Peter,; Rottenburg, Richard,; Zenker, Julia,
• HerausgeberIn: Geißler, P. Wenzel,; Rottenburg, Richard,; Zenker, Julia,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: VerKörperungen/MatteRealities - Perspektiven empirischer Wissenschaftsforschung ; 15
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Editorial --; Content --; 21st century African biopolitics: fuzzy fringes, cracks and undersides, neglected backwaters, and returning politics --; Not quite disciplined --; Governing Malaria: How an old scourge troubles precepts in social theory --; Configuring Trans* Citizens in South Africa: Somatechnics, Self-Formation and Governmentality --; Politics again --; Biomedical Hype and Hopes: AIDS Medicines for Africa --; The Politics and Anti-politics of HIV interventions in Kenya --; Inherent Failure and Contradiction --; Experimental hubris and medical powerlessness: Notes from a colonial utopia, Cameroon, 1939-1949 --; Intellectual Property Designs: Drugs, Governance, and Nigerian (Non-)Compliance with the World Trade Organization --; Missing the Nation State --; Serving the City: Community-Based Malaria Control in Dar es Salaam --; Stock-outs in global health: Pharmaceutical governance and uncertainties in the global supply of ARVs in Uganda --; Longing for Citizenship --; “We are not paid—they just give us”: Liberalisation and the longing for biopolitical discipline around an African HIV prevention trial --; Sleeping Sickness and the Limits of ‘Biological Citizenship’ --; References --; Contributors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839420287; 9783111025230; 9783110661552; 9783110352856; 9783110370737
• DOI: 10.1515/transcript.9783839420287?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Julia Zenker, Richard Rottenburg, P. Wenzel Geißler.

In the domain of health, the relation between bodies, citizenship, nations and governments has changed beyond recognition over the past four decades, especially in Africa. In many regions, populations are now faced with a total lack of medical care, and the disciplinary regimes of modernity are faint memories. In this situation, new critical insights beyond the critique of old »modernization« and the »disciplinary regimes« of imperial times are needed. How can we keep up our sophisticated criticism of knowledge regimes and our doubts with regard to narratives of development, when so many people in Africa are dreaming about modernity and are envisioning their own renaissance?