Para-States and Medical Science: Making African Global Health

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- PART I: RUPTURE, CONTINUITY -- CHAPTER 1. Treating to Prevent HIV: Population Trials and Experimental Societies -- CHAPTER 2. Trialing Drugs, Creating Publics: Medical Research, Leprosy Control, and the Construction of a Public Health Sphere in Post-1945 Nigeria -- PART II: PAST, FUTURES -- CHAPTER 3. Lessons in Medical Nihilism: Virus Hunters, Neoliberalism, and the AIDS Pandemic in Cameroon -- CHAPTER 4. What Future Remains? Remembering an African Place of Science -- PART III: STATE REMAINS -- CHAPTER 5. International Health and the Proliferation of "Partnerships": (Un)Intended Boost for State Institutions in Tanzania? -- CHAPTER 6. Working and Surviving: Government Employees on ART in Uganda -- PART IV: AFFECTIVE WHOLES -- CHAPTER 7. Molecular and Municipal Politics: Research and Regulation in Dakar -- CHAPTER 8. The Work of the Virus: Cutting and Creating Relations in an ART Project -- PART V: STRUGGLING NATION -- CHAPTER 9. The Blue Warriors: Ecology, Participation, and Public Health in Malaria Control Experiments -- CHAPTER 10. The Territory of Medical Research: Experimentation in Africa's Smallest State -- CHAPTER 11. Adventures of African Nevirapine: The Political Biography of a Magic Bullet -- Contributors -- Index

In Para-States and Medical Science, P. Wenzel Geissler and the contributors examine how medicine and public health in Africa have been transformed as a result of economic and political liberalization and globalization, intertwined with epidemiological and technological changes. The resulting fragmented medical science landscape is shaped and sustained by transnational flows of expertise and resources. NGOs, universities, pharmaceutical companies and other nonstate actors now play a significant role in medical research and treatment. But as the contributors to this volume argue, these groups ha