TY  - BOOK
AU  - Langwick,Stacey Ann
AU  - Kane,Abdoulaye
AU  - Dilger,Hansjörg
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Medicine, mobility, and power in global Africa: transnational health and healing 
SN  - 9780253005328
AV  - RA545 .M47 2012
U1  - 362.1096 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Bloomington, Ind.
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Traditional medicine
KW  - Africa
KW  - Health services accessibility
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes index; 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780253005328/
ER  -