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Author Crane, Johanna Tayloe, author

Title Scrambling for Africa : AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science / Johanna Tayloe Crane
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 208 pages)
Series Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
Expertise (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Contents Resistant to treatment -- The molecular politics of HIV -- The turn towards Africa -- Research and development -- Doing global health
Summary Countries in sub-Saharan Africa were once dismissed by Western experts as being too poor and chaotic to benefit from the antiretroviral drugs that transformed the AIDS epidemic in the United States and Europe. Today, however, the region is courted by some of the most prestigious research universities in the world as they search for "resource-poor" hospitals in which to base their international HIV research and global health programs. In Scrambling for Africa, Johanna Tayloe Crane reveals how, in the space of merely a decade, Africa went from being a continent largely excluded from advancements in HIV medicine to an area of central concern and knowledge production within the increasingly popular field of global health science. Drawing on research conducted in the U.S. and Uganda during the mid-2000s, Crane provides a fascinating ethnographic account of the transnational flow of knowledge, politics, and research money-as well as blood samples, viruses, and drugs. She takes readers to underfunded Ugandan HIV clinics as well as to laboratories and conference rooms in wealthy American cities like San Francisco and Seattle where American and Ugandan experts struggle to forge shared knowledge about the AIDS epidemic. The resulting uncomfortable mix of preventable suffering, humanitarian sentiment, and scientific ambition shows how global health research partnerships may paradoxically benefit from the very inequalities they aspire to redress. A work of outstanding interdisciplinary scholarship, Scrambling for Africa will be of interest to audiences in anthropology, science and technology studies, African studies, and the medical humanities
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-202) and index
Notes English
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Subject Medical anthropology -- Uganda
AIDS (Disease) -- Research -- Uganda
Medical assistance, American -- Uganda
Medical anthropology.
World health.
International cooperation.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- epidemiology
Anthropology, Medical
Global Health
International Cooperation
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
AIDS (Disease) -- Research
Medical anthropology
Medical assistance, American
SUBJECT Africa -- epidemiology https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000349Q000453
United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject Uganda
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2023700328
ISBN 9780801469053
0801469058
0801469066
9780801469060
Other Titles AIDS, expertise, and the rise of American global health science