Biomedicine in Africa – an anthropology of law, organization, science and technology
The Research Program Biomedicine in Africa examines how biomedicine is shaped through its engagements in Africa. Biomedicine is regarded as a circulating set of technologies, practices, and ideas that – as a by-product of prevention and healing – links individual bodies to the political order. Africa is central for understanding global shifts in the making of social, political, and juridical forms of governance because the continent is marginalised in the global political economy and thus represents a site of intense conflict and experimentation.

Completed Projects
Wenzel Geissler
Associate
Shifting States of Science in Eastern Africa
Rene Gerrets
Ph.D Candidate
Globalizing International Health: the cultural politics of ‘partnership’ in Tanzanian malaria control
Thamar Klein
Research Fellow
Que(e)rying body perceptions in South Africa
Stacey Langwick
Associate
Global Traditions, Tanzanian Medicines
Julie Laplante
Research Fellow
South African roots towards global knowledge
Babette Müller-Rockstroh
Research Fellow
Safe motherhood in Tanzania in the era of ART
Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Associate
HIV Mass Treatment in West Africa
Sung-Joon Park
Ph.D Candidate
The Supply Side of ART: users, drugs, and technologies in organising mass ART-programs in Uganda
Ruth Prince
Associate
HIV and the Moral Economy of Survival in Kenya
Katharina Schramm
Assoziierte
The Stones, the Bones, and the Genes: classification practices and narratives of human origins in post-apartheid South Africa
Virginie Tallio
Research Fellow
Governing bodies in post-war Angola
Julia Zenker
Associate
Modernisation of traditional healing in South Africa