Medicine and the Politics of Knowledge - Softcover

9780796923929: Medicine and the Politics of Knowledge

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0796923922 ISBN 13: 9780796923929

Verlag: HSRC Press, 2013

Conceived in response to the urgency of bioethical debates in medical anthropology, this ethnographic collection touches the borders of anthropology, philosophy, and public health. At a time in world history where medicine and medical practice is deeply contested in the everyday as well as in juridical terms, this book makes an essential contribution to global debates about tradition, about science, and about the politics of knowledge production. Medicine and the Politics of Knowledge situates South Africa in the context of other cases of contention and contestation in other significant nations&;including the history of South Africa's 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.

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Susan Levine is a senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town and she has written extensively on the political economy of children&;s work in South Africa&;s wine industry. Her current research focuses on children&;s subjective experiences of living with infectious illness in sub-Saharan Africa. She is the recipient of a Distinguished Teacher&;s Award and is renowned for her experimental pedagogy in teaching medical anthropology.

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