Making public health in Africa : ethnographic and historical perspectives / edited by Ruth J. Prince and Rebecca Marsland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marsland, Rebecca.

Prince, Ruth Jane.

Series:

Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series

Cambridge Centre of African Studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Africa--Congresses.

Ethnology.

Public health--Africa--Congresses.

Public health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

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 and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780821444665

0821444662

OCLC:

884016660