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BL
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847127
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Para-states and medical science : : making African global health /\ P. Wenzel Geissler, editor.
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Durham :: Duke University Press,, 2015.
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, ©2015
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Critical global health
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1 online resource (369 pages) :: illustrations
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082237627X
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: 1322879923
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: 9781322879925
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0822357356
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0822357496
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9780822357353
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9780822357490
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Treating to prevent HIV : population trials and experimental societies / Vinh-Kim Nguyen -- Trialing drugs, creating publics : medical research, leprosy control, and the construction of a public health sphere in post-1945 Nigeria / John Manton -- Lessons in medical nihilism : virus hunters, neoliberalism, and the AIDS crisis in Cameroon / Guillaume Lachenal -- What future remains? Remembering an African place of science / Paul Wenzel Geissler -- International health and proliferation of "partnerships" : (Un)intended boost for state institutions in Tanzania? / Rene Gerrets -- Working and surviving : government employees on ART in Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte -- Molecular and municipal politics : research and regulation in Dakar / Branwyn Poleykett -- The work of the virus : cutting and creating relations in an ART project / Lotte Meinert -- The blue warriors : science, democracy, and public health in Malaria control experiments / Uli Beisel -- The territory of medical research : experimentation in Africa's smallest state / Ann Kelly -- Adventures of African Nevirapine : the political biography of a magic bullet / Didier Fassin.
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| Abstract
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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 ha.
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AIDS (Disease)-- Treatment-- Africa.
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Medical care-- Research-- Africa.
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Medical policy-- Africa.
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
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Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
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Delivery of Health Care.
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Disciplines and Occupations
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Disease.
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Environment and Public Health
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Health Care Economics and Organizations
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Health Occupations.
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Health Policy.
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Health.
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HIV Infections.
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Immune System Diseases.
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Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes.
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Lentivirus Infections.
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Medicine.
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Natural Science Disciplines.
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Policy.
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Population Characteristics.
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Public Health.
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Public Policy.
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Research.
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Retroviridae Infections.
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RNA Virus Infections.
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Science.
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral.
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
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Slow Virus Diseases.
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Social Control Policies.
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Social Control, Formal.
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Social Sciences.
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Sociology.
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Virus Diseases.
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AIDS (Disease)-- Treatment.
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MEDICAL / Public Health
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Medical care-- Research.
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Medical policy.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Services Welfare.
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Africa.
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| Dewey Classification
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362.1096
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| LC Classification
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RA440.87.A35P36 2015
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| Added Entry
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Geissler, Wenzel
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