Chapter Introduction: A Life Science in Its African Para-State
In Para-States and Medical Science, P. Wenzel Geissler and the contributors examine how medicine and public health in Africa have been transformed as a result of economic and political liberalization and globalization, intertwined with epidemiological and technological changes. The resulting fragmen...
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| description | In Para-States and Medical Science, P. Wenzel Geissler and the contributors examine how medicine and public health in Africa have been transformed as a result of economic and political liberalization and globalization, intertwined with epidemiological and technological changes. The resulting fragmented medical science landscape is shaped and sustained by transnational flows of expertise and resources. NGOs, universities, pharmaceutical companies and other nonstate actors now play a significant role in medical research and treatment. But as the contributors to this volume argue, these groups have not supplanted the primacy of the nation-state in Africa. Although not necessarily stable or responsive, national governments remain crucial in medical care, both as employers of health care professionals and as sources of regulation, access, and – albeit sometimes counterintuitively - trust for their people. “The state” has morphed into the “para-state” — not a monolithic and predictable source of sovereignty and governance, but a shifting, and at times ephemeral, figure. Tracing the emergence of the “global health” paradigm in Africa in the treatment of HIV, malaria, and leprosy, this book challenges familiar notions of African statehood as weak or illegitimate by elaborating complex new frameworks of governmentality that can be simultaneously functioning and dysfunctional. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-324752025-07-30T10:21:19Z Chapter Introduction: A Life Science in Its African Para-State Wenzel Geissler, Paul africa medicine public health africa medicine public health Biopolitics Clinical trial HIV Nation state State-owned enterprise thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1H Africa thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine::MBNH Personal and public health / health education thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1H Africa thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine::MBNH Personal and public health / health education In Para-States and Medical Science, P. Wenzel Geissler and the contributors examine how medicine and public health in Africa have been transformed as a result of economic and political liberalization and globalization, intertwined with epidemiological and technological changes. The resulting fragmented medical science landscape is shaped and sustained by transnational flows of expertise and resources. NGOs, universities, pharmaceutical companies and other nonstate actors now play a significant role in medical research and treatment. But as the contributors to this volume argue, these groups have not supplanted the primacy of the nation-state in Africa. Although not necessarily stable or responsive, national governments remain crucial in medical care, both as employers of health care professionals and as sources of regulation, access, and – albeit sometimes counterintuitively - trust for their people. “The state” has morphed into the “para-state” — not a monolithic and predictable source of sovereignty and governance, but a shifting, and at times ephemeral, figure. Tracing the emergence of the “global health” paradigm in Africa in the treatment of HIV, malaria, and leprosy, this book challenges familiar notions of African statehood as weak or illegitimate by elaborating complex new frameworks of governmentality that can be simultaneously functioning and dysfunctional. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2015-03-19 00:00:00 2020-04-01T12:40:05Z 2015 chapter 1000044 OCN: 1051778338 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29908 9780822357490 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32475 eng Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29908/1/1000044.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29908/1/1000044.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29908/1/1000044.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29908/1/1000044.pdf Duke University Press 10.26530/oapen_530530 10.26530/oapen_530530 8b9381d6-252e-4bed-8478-ee620c861aac Para-States and Medical Science: Making African Global Health Wellcome Trust d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9780822357490 Wellcome 376 077430, 081507 open access |
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