{"product_id":"medicine-mobility-and-power-in-global-africa-transnational-health-and-healing-9780253223685","title":"Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing","description":"\u003cp\u003eRecent political, social, and economic changes in Africa have provoked radical shifts in the landscape of health and healthcare. \u003ci\u003eMedicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa\u003c\/i\u003e captures the multiple dynamics of a globalized world and its impact on medicine, health, and the delivery of healthcare in Africa--and beyond. Essays by an international group of contributors take on intractable problems such as HIV\/AIDS, malaria, and insufficient access to healthcare, drugs, resources, hospitals, and technologies. The movements of people and resources described here expose the growing challenges of poverty and public health, but they also show how new opportunities have been created for transforming healthcare and promoting care and healing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hansjörg Dilger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Indiana University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/08\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 358\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780253223685\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHansjörg Dilger is a junior professor of social and cultural anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin. He is author of \u003ci\u003eLiving with Aids, Illness, Death, and Social Relationships in Africa: An Ethnography\u003c\/i\u003e (in German).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbdoulaye Kane is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Florida. He is author of \u003ci\u003eTontines, Solidarity Funds, and Street Bankers: The Universe of Informal Financial Practices in Africa and Among African Immigants in France\u003c\/i\u003e (in French).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStacey A. Langwick is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University. She is author of\u003ci\u003e Bodies, Politics, and African Healing: The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania\u003c\/i\u003e (IUP, 2011).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40538726924403,"sku":"9.78025E+12","price":26.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_a5998977-aae3-4ece-b0bf-5bbb0816e350.jpg?v=1666703517","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/medicine-mobility-and-power-in-global-africa-transnational-health-and-healing-9780253223685","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}