• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Rethinking Biomedicine and Governance in Africa : Contributions from Anthropology
  • Contributor: Geissler, Paul Wenzel [Other]; Rottenburg, Richard [Other]; Zenker, Julia [Other]
  • imprint: Bielefeld: transcript, 2012
    2012
  • Published in: VerKörperungen/MatteRealities - Perspektiven empirischer Wissenschaftsforschung ; 15
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (292 S.)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.14361/transcript.9783839420287
  • ISBN: 9783839420287
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  • Keywords: Medical anthropology Africa Congresses ; Medical ethics Africa Congresses ; Medical policy Africa Congresses ; Medical anthropology. ; Medical ethics. ; Medical policy. ; Biomedizin. ; Biopolitik. ; Gesundheitswesen. ; Governance. ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie. ; Africa, Health, Governance, Biopolitics, Biomedicine, Theories of Modernity, Belonging, Science, Medicine, Sociology of Medicine, Ethnology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues
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  • Description: Biographical note: Paul Wenzel Geissler (Prof. PhD) teaches Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he founded a research group dedicated to »Anthropologies and Histories of African Biosciences«. He is an associate member of the LOST Research Group (anthropology of law, organization, science and technology) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Richard Rottenburg (Prof. Dr.) holds a chair in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Halle (Germany). He is the director of the LOST Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Julia Zenker (Dr.) is currently teaching at the University of Bern (Switzerland). She is an associate member of the LOST Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Her research interests include medical anthropology, HIV/AIDS, bureaucracy and modernity studies.

    Biographical note: Paul Wenzel Geissler (Prof. PhD) teaches Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he founded a research group dedicated to »Anthropologies and Histories of African Biosciences«. He is an associate member of the LOST Research Group (anthropology of law, organization, science and technology) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Richard Rottenburg (Prof. Dr.) holds a chair in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Halle (Germany). He is the director of the LOST Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Julia Zenker (Dr.) is currently teaching at the University of Bern (Switzerland). She is an associate member of the LOST Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Her research interests include medical anthropology, HIV/AIDS, bureaucracy and modernity studies.
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