The Politics of Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences, 1st ed. 2023 South/African Perspectives
Coordonnateurs : Jansen Jonathan, Auerbach Jess
An introduction to the politics of knowledge in medicine.- The invention of the Birthsuit: Medicine, the body and science in South African history.- Visualizing medicine: Photographing patients in 20th century South Africa.- Tied up in the genes: Racial biomedicine and the politics of knowledge.- “The reconfirmation of the same”: Recent genetic studies of the “Afrikaner population”.- Racism, colonialism, and the structure of medical knowledge in the Global COVID-19 vaccination campaign.- When not to decolonize.- Unmasked faces and tight vaginas: The politics of health rumors in Burkina Faso.- French biomedicine in Morocco: Data capitalism and imperial extractivism.- How the history and politics of occupational therapy shapes the profession and its practitioners.- The medicalization of the mind: On the politics of knowledge in clinical psychology.
Is written in an accessible language for students, researchers and lay readers
Combines fascinating histories of medicine alongside the contemporary politics of medicine
Fills the gap in literature on the politics of medicine not only in content but in perspective
Date de parution : 11-2023
Ouvrage de 271 p.
15.5x23.5 cm
Disponible chez l'éditeur (délai d'approvisionnement : 15 jours).
Prix indicatif 147,69 €
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