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Format: VII, 292 S.

ISBN: 978-0-8214-2057-7 , 978-0-8214-2058-4

Series Statement: Cambridge Centre of African Studies series

Content: "Africa has emerged as a prime arena of global health interventions that focus on particular diseases and health emergencies. These are framed increasingly in terms of international concerns about security, human rights, and humanitarian crisis. This presents a stark contrast to the 1960s and '70s, when many newly independent African governments pursued the vision of public health "for all," of comprehensive health care services directed by the state with support from foreign donors. These initiatives often failed, undermined by international politics, structural adjustment, and neoliberal policies, and by African states themselves. Yet their traces remain in contemporary expectations of and yearnings for a more robust public health. This volume explores how medical professionals and patients, government officials, and ordinary citizens approach questions of public health as they navigate contemporary landscapes of NGOs and transnational projects, faltering state services, and expanding privatization. Its contributors analyze the relations between the public and the private providers of public health, from the state to new global biopolitical formations of political institutions, markets, human populations, and health. Tensions and ambiguities animate these complex relationships, suggesting that the question of what public health actually is in Africa cannot be taken for granted. Offering historical and ethnographic analyses, the volume develops an anthropology of public health in Africa. Contributors: P. Wenzel Geissler; Murray Last; Rebecca Marsland; Lotte Meinert; Benson A. Mulemi; Ruth J. Prince; and Noemi Tousignant"...Provided by publisher

Note: Papers from a workshop held at the University of Cambridge's Centre of African Studies and Department of Social Anthropology in June 2008. - Includes bibliographical references (S. 257-284) and index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-8214-4466-5

Language: English

Subjects: Economics , Political Science , Ethnology , Sociology

Keywords: Öffentliches Gesundheitswesen ; Medizinische Versorgung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift

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Format: 1 online resource (x, 270 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 9781782046691 (ebook)

Series Statement: African issues

Content: Across Africa today, as development activities animate novel forms of governance, new social actors are emerging, among them the volunteer. Yet, where work and resources are limited, volunteer practices have repercussions that raise contentious ethical issues. What has been the real impact of volunteers economically, politically and in society? The interdisciplinary experts in this collection examine the practices of volunteers - both international and local - and ideologies of volunteerism. They show the significance of volunteerism to processes of social and economic transformation, and political projects of national development and citizenship, as well as to individual aspirations in African societies. These case studies - from South Africa, Lesotho, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Sierra Leone and Malawi - examine everyday experiences of volunteerism and trajectories of voluntary work, trace its broader historical, political and economic implications, and situate African experiencesof voluntary labour within global exchanges and networks of resources, ideas and political technologies. Offering insights into changing configurations of work, citizenship, development and social mobility, the authors offer new perspectives on the relations between labour, identity and social value in Africa. Ruth Prince is Associate Professor in Medical Anthropology at the Universityof Oslo; with her co-author Wenzel Geissler, she won the 2010 Amaury Talbot Prize for their book The Land is Dying: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya. Hannah Brown is a lecturer in Anthropology at Durham University.

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Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 9781847011404

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (301 p.)

ISBN: 0-8214-4466-2

Series Statement: Cambridge Centre of African Studies series

Content: Africa has emerged as a prime arena of global health interventions that focus on particular diseases and health emergencies. These are framed increasingly in terms of international concerns about security, human rights, and humanitarian crisis. This presents a stark contrast to the 1960's and '70's, when many newly independent African governments pursued the vision of public health "for all," of comprehensive health care services directed by the state with support from foreign donors. These initiatives often failed, undermined by international politics, structural adjustment, and neoliberal

Note: Papers from a workshop held at the University of Cambridge's Centre of African Studies and Department of Social Anthropology in June 2008. , Introduction; Locating Health, Healing, and the Public in Africa; Health, Development, and the Colonial State in Africa; The Developmentalist State in Africa; The 1980's: Neoliberalism, Structural Adjustment, and NGO's; Nongovernmental Governance?; From Public Health to Global Health?; Futures?; Overview of the Chapters; Notes; The Peculiarly Political Problem behind Nigeria's Primary Health Care Provision; Local Government Authorities; On the Origins; Today's "Private Health"; Conclusions?; Notes; Who Are the "Public" in Public Health?; Debating Funerals; Public Health without a Public? , The Public Control of Public Health What Kind of Public Is There in Kyela?; Notes; The Qualities of Citizenship; Citizenship of Quality:; Notes; Regimes of Homework in AIDS Care; Imaginations of the Home; Teaching Home-Based AIDS Care (HBAC); Anna and Her Homework; Questions of Responsibility; Imagined and Real Homes; From Biological Survival to Living a Life; The Intimate Relation between Care and Control; Notes; "Home-Based Care Is Not a New Thing"; Home-Based Care; A Meeting at Kagot Development Group; Women's Groups and Health Care in Historical Context , Women's Groups, Patron-Client Politics, and the Distribution of Resources Domestic Distinction; Notes; Technologies of Hope; The Cancer Crisis; Hospital Ethnography of Cancer Management; Initial Hope in the Cancer Ward; Maintaining Hope in the Face of Uncertainty; Unpopular Decisions; Protecting the Hospital as a Symbol of Hope; Redefining Therapy; Curing, Caring, and Safeguarding Hope; Notes; The Publics of the New Public Health; Biomedical Authority; Demotic Concerns; Life Conditions and Body Ideals; Eating; Exercise; The Therapeutic Marketplace; The Media; The Logic of Life Conditions , Notes Navigating "Global Health" in East Africa City; Global Health and the Urban Landscape; The Projectification of Health Care; Biopolitical Regimes and Relations?; From the Clinic to the "Community"; "We Are HIV Graduates"; Developing Futures?; Notes; The Archipelago of Public Health; Living in the New Landscape of Public Health; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index , English

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Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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Format: Seiten 101-203 , Illustrationen

Series Statement: Visual Anthropology volume 29, number 2 (March/April 2016)

Language: English

Keywords: Anthropologie ; Medizin ; Fotografie ; Kunst ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Format: x, 270 Seiten

ISBN: 9781847011404 , 9781847011398 , 184701139X

Series Statement: African issues

Content: Examines the increasing significance of the volunteer and volunteerism in African societies, and their societal impact within precarious economies in a period of massive unemployment and faltering trajectories of social mobility

Note: Enthält 9 Beiträge , "This volume originated as two workshops on two workshops on volunteer labour and citizenship in Africa, which tool place in October 2011 at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge, and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine." - Acknowledgements , Literaturverzeichnis Seite 234-262

Language: English

Subjects: Political Science , Ethnology , Sociology

Keywords: Afrika ; Ehrenamtliche Tätigkeit ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Staat ; Ethik ; Fallstudie ; Konferenzschrift

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Format: XIX, 423 S. : , Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. ; , 24 cm.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 978-1-84545-481-4

Series Statement: Epistemologies of healing 5

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

Keywords: Luo ; Aids ; Alltag ; Tod

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Author information: Geissler, Paul W.

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Format: XIX, 423 S. , Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 9781845454814

Series Statement: Epistemologies of healing 5

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

Keywords: Kenia ; Luo ; Aids ; Medizin ; Gesundheitswesen ; Gesellschaft

Author information: Geissler, Paul W.

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Format: XIX, 423 S. : , Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. ; , 24 cm.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 978-1-84545-481-4

Series Statement: Epistemologies of healing 5

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

Keywords: Luo ; Aids ; Alltag ; Tod

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Author information: Geissler, Paul W.

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Format: 1 online resource (444 p.)

ISBN: 9781845458027

Series Statement: Epistemologies of Healing ; 5

Content: Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores life in and around a Luo-speaking village in western Kenya during a time of death. The epidemic of HIV/AIDS affects every aspect of sociality and pervades villagers' debates about the past, the future and the ethics of everyday life. Central to such debates is a discussion of touch in the broad sense of concrete, material contact between persons. In mundane practices and in ritual acts, touch is considered to be key to the creation of bodily life as well as social continuity. Underlying the significance of material contact is its connection with growth – of persons and groups, animals, plants and the land – and the forward movement of life more generally. Under the pressure of illness and death, economic hardship and land scarcity, as well as bitter struggles about the relevance and application of Christianity and ‘Luo tradition’ in daily life, people find it difficult to agree about the role of touch in engendering growth, or indeed about the aims of growth itself.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , List of Figures -- , Acknowledgements -- , 1. Introduction: ‘Are we still together here?’ -- , 2. Landscapes and histories -- , 3. Salvation and tradition: heaven and earth? -- , PART I. -- , 4. ‘Opening the way’: being at home in Uhero -- , 5. Growing children: shared persons and permeable bodies -- , PART II. -- , 6. Order and decomposition: touch around sickness and death -- , 7. Life seen: touch, vision and speech in the making of sex in Uhero -- , 8. ‘Our Luo culture is sick’: identity and infection in the debate about widow inheritance -- , PART III. -- , 9. ‘How can we drink his tea without killing a bull?’ – Funerary ceremony and matters of remembrance -- , 10. ‘The land is dying’ – traces and monuments in the village landscape -- , 11. Contingency, creativity and difference in western Kenya -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781845458027

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Format: 1 online resource (444 p.)

ISBN: 0-85745-826-4 , 1-282-66234-1 , 9786612662348 , 1-84545-802-8

Series Statement: Epistemologies of healing

Content: Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores life in and around a Luo-speaking village in western Kenya during a time of death. The epidemic of HIV/AIDS affects every aspect of sociality and pervades villagers' debates about the past, the future and the ethics of everyday life. Central to such debates is a discussion of touch in the broad sense of concrete, material contact between persons. In mundane practices and in ritual acts, touch is considered to be key to the creation of bodily life as well as social continuity. Underlying the significance of material contact

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , The Land is Dying; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Landscapes and histories; Chapter 3: Salvation and tradition; Chapter 4: 'Opening the way'; Chapter 5: Growing children; Chapter 6: Order and decomposition; Chapter 7: Life seen; Chapter 8: 'Our Luo culture is sick'; Chapter 9: 'How can we drink his tea without killing a bull?'; Chapter 10: 'The land is dying'; Chapter 11: Contingency, creativity and difference in western Kenya; Bibliography; Index , English

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Additional Edition: ISBN 1-84545-481-2

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781845458027