Traces of the Future: An Archaeology of Medical Science in Africa (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781783207251)

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Traces of the Future: An Archaeology of Medical Science in Africa

$28.50

Traces of the Future: An Archaeology of Medical Science in Africa

$28.50
Format: Hardcover
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This book presents a close look at the vestiges of twentieth-century medical work at five key sites in Africa: Senegal, Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya, and Tanzania. The authors aim to understand the afterlife of scientific institutions and practices and the "aftertime" of scientific modernity and its attendant visions of progress and transformation. Straightforward scholarly work is juxtaposed here with altogether more experimental approaches to fieldwork and analysis, including interview fragments; brief, reflective essays; and a rich photographic archive. The result is an unprecedented view of the lingering traces of medical science from Africa's past.


Author: Paul Wenzel Geissler
ISBN-10: 1783207256
ISBN-13: 9781783207251
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Language: English
Published: 02/15/2017
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.82lbs
Size: 10.70h x 8.50w x 1.20d

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By Paul Wenzel Geissler
By Paul Wenzel Geissler
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Paul Wenzel Geissler is a professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and part time director of research at the University of Cambridge. Guillaume Lachenal is a lecturer at the Université Paris Diderot, junior fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France. John Manton is associate professor of history at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Noémi Tousignant is affiliate member of the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill, and guest researcher in history at the Université de Montréal.

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