Biomedicine in Africa

Research report (imported) 2007 - Max Planck Institut für ethnologische Forschung

Authors
Rottenburg, Richard
Departments
Max Planck Fellow Gruppe "Law, Organisation, Science and Technology" (Prof. Dr. Richard Rottenburg)
MPI für ethnologische Forschung, Halle/Saale
Summary
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology examine 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.

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