Medicine and the politics of knowledge /

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Imprint:	Cape Town, South Africa : HSRC Press ; [Chicago, Ill.?] : Distributed in North America by River North Editions, IPG, 2012.
Description:	vii, 200 p. : ill. (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Traditional medicine -- South Africa. Alternative medicine -- South Africa. Traditional medicine -- Cross-cultural studies. Alternative medicine -- Cross-cultural studies. Medicine -- Cross-cultural studies. Healing -- Cross-cultural studies. Ethnoscience -- Cross-cultural studies. Medical innovations -- Social aspects. Medical technology -- Social aspects. Knowledge, Sociology of. Medical anthropology. Alternative medicine. Ethnoscience. Healing. Knowledge, Sociology of. Medical anthropology. Medical innovations -- Social aspects. Medical technology -- Social aspects. Medicine. Traditional medicine. South Africa. Cross-cultural studies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9301513

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Other authors / contributors:	Levine, Susan (Susan L.)
ISBN:	9780796923929 (soft cover) 0796923922 (soft cover) 9780796923936 (pdf) 0796923930 (pdf) 9780796923943 (e-pub) 0796923949 (e-pub)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Medicine and the Politics of Knowledge situates South Africa - including its history of stances and political formations around HIV/AIDS - in the broader context of questions relating to science, medicine, human experimentation, and structural violence, all of which shape the cases in the book. Putting South Africa in the context of other cases of contention and contestation about science and medicine in India, Latin America and China helps us to understand the particular history of the South African case itself. Conceived in response to the urgency of bioethical debates in medical anthropology, this ethnographic collection touches the borders of anthropology, philosophy, and public health"--Publisher's website.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Medicine and the politics of knowledge : beyond the microscope / Susan Levine
Ethnography from southern Africa: The rings around Jonathan's eyes : HIV and AIDS medicine at the margins of administration / Oliver Human. True believers or modern believers : HIV science and the work of the Dr Rath Foundation / Christopher Colvin. Testing knowledge : legitimacy, healing and medicine in South Africa / Susan Levine. Biomedical and traditional knowledge in the search for healing in Namibia / Diana Gibson and Estelle Oosthuysen
Ethnography from the global South: Believing sceptically : rethinking health-seeking behaviours in central India / Helen Macdonald. Experimentalité : pharmaceutical insights into anthropology's epistemologically fractured self / Donna Goldstein. Knowledge in translation : global science, local things / Judith Farquhar
Postscript: Trees, webs and explosions : the analogical imperative in the politics of knowledge / Fritha Langerman.

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