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Medical Anthropology
Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness
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Review

Medical Anthropology in Africa: The Trouble with a Single Story

Books reviewed

  • Cooper, A.F., J. J. Kirton, F. Lisk, and H. Besada 2013 Africa’s Health Challenges: Sovereignty, Mobility of People and Healthcare Governance. Farnham: Ashgate. 278 pp. Hardback: £58.50; 9 b&w illustrations; index.
  • Dilger, H., A. Kane, and S. A. Langwick 2012 Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 358 pp. Cloth $80.00; Paper $27.95, Ebook $22.99; 10 b&w illustrations; index.
  • Geissler, P. W. and C. Molyneux 2011 Evidence, Ethos and Experiment. The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa. New York Berghahn: . 452 pp. Hardback: £75:00; 32 illustrations; index.
  • Kamat, V. R. 2013 Silent Violence: Global Health, Malaria, and Child Survival in Tanzania. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 320 pp. Paper $34.95; 15 illustrations; index.
  • Van Dijk, R., H. Dilger, M. Burchardt, and T. Rasing 2014 Religion and the Challenges of AIDS Treatment in Africa: Saving Souls, Prolonging Lives. Farnham: Ashgate. 320 pp. Hardback: £70.00; 4 b&w illustrations; index.

References

  • Adiche, C. 2009 The danger of a single story. http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story?language=en.
  • Fanon, F. 1994 [1959] Medicine and colonialism. In A Dying Colonialism. New York: Grove Press.
  • Farmer, P. 2010 [1990] Sending sickness: Sorcery, politics and changing concepts of AIDS in rural Haiti. In Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader. H. Saussy, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Feierman, S. 2011 When physicians meet: Local medical knowledge and global public goods. In Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa. P. W. Geissler and C. Molyneux, eds. Pp. 171–196. New York: Berghahn.
  • Fitzgerald, L. 2011 Supporting the clinical human resource needs of Soka Uncobe: Maximizing the responses of visiting health care workers. Presentation given on behalf of Jphiego on 16 May 2011 in Mbabane, Swaziland.
  • Heald, S. 2011 Is the Shari of the doctors killing the people. In Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa. P. W. Geissler, and C. Molyneux, eds. Pp. 333–352. New York: Berghahn.
  • Hsu, E. 2012 Mobility and connectedness: Chinese medical doctors in Kenya. In Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing. H. Dilger, A. Kane, and S. A. Langwick. eds. Pp. 295–315. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • Kamat, V. R. 2013 Silent Violence: Global Health, Malaria, and Child Survival in Tanzania. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
  • Kane, A. 2012 Flow of medicine, healers, health professionals, and patients between home and host countries. In Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing. H. Dilger, A. Kane, and S. A. Langwick, eds. Pp. 190–212. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • Masquelier, A. 2012 Public health or public threat? Polio eradication campaigns, Islamic revival, and materialization of state power in Niger. In Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing. H. Dilger, A. Kane, and S. A. Langwick, eds. Pp. 213–240. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • Mattes, D. 2014 The Blood of Jesus and CD4 counts: Dreaming, developing and navigating therapeutic options for curing HIV/AIDS in Tanzania. In Religion and the Challenges of AIDS Treatment in Africa: Saving Souls, Prolonging Lives. R. van Dijk., H. Dilger, M. Burchardt, and T. Rasing, eds. Pp. 169–193 Farnham: Ashgate.
  • Muller-Rockstroh, B. 2011 Foetuses, facts and frictions: Insights from ultrasound research in Tanzania. In Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa. P. W. Geissler and C. Molyneux, eds. Pp. 245–262. New York: Berghahn.
  • Nguyen, V. 2011 Trial communities: HIV and therapeutic citizenship in West Africa. In Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa. P. W. Geissler and C. Molyneux, eds. Pp. 429–444. New York: Berghahn.
  • Oxlund, B. 2014 ‘A blessing in disguise’: The art of surviving HIV/AIDS as a member of the Zionist Christian Church in South Africa. In Religion and the Challenges of AIDS Treatment in Africa: Saving Souls, Prolonging Lives. R. van Dijk, H. Dilger, M. Burchardt, and T. Rasing, eds. Pp. 73–94. Farnham: Ashgate.
  • Tocco, J. U. 2014 Prophetic medicine, antiretrovirals, and the therapeutic economy of HIV in Northern Nigeria. In Religion and the Challenges of AIDS Treatment in Africa: Saving Souls, Prolonging Lives. R. van Dijk, H. Dilger, M. Burchardt, and T. Rasing, eds. Pp. 119–146. Farnham: Ashgate.
  • World Bank. 2008 Swaziland - Interim strategy note. Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/02/9356617/swaziland-interim-strategy-note.

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