The politics of knowledge in the biomedical sciences : South/African perspectives / Jonathan Jansen, Jess Auerbach, editors.
Jansen, Jonathan D., editor.; Auerbach, Jess, editor.
2023
RA418.3.S6
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Title The politics of knowledge in the biomedical sciences : South/African perspectives / Jonathan Jansen, Jess Auerbach, editors.
ISBN 9783031319136 (electronic bk.)
3031319133 (electronic bk.)
9783031319129
3031319125
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31913-6
Published Cham : Springer, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Description 1 online resource (vi, 271 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-31913-6 doi
Call Number RA418.3.S6
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.4/610968
Summary In the wake of the decolonization movement in South Africa and around the world, this edited work presents fresh evidence and advances new arguments on the politics and economics of colonial biomedical knowledge in South Africa and other parts of the African continent. Covering a richly diverse set of fields---including human genetics, obstetrics, occupational therapy, medical photography and the vaccine sciences---the book demonstrates the troubled histories and the enduring effects of imperial knowledge decades since the end of colonial rule and apartheid. While this is a valuable text on the politics of the biomedical sciences written from the perspective of the African continent, at the same time it revisits knowledge/power relationships between the global north and south in a historical perspective and in their contemporary expression in the disciplines. The immediate benefit is a reference resource for medical science researchers, and a teaching text for senior undergraduate and postgraduate students. The book is further composed as an accessible, readable and interesting text on politics and medicine in Africa for the discerning lay reader.
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Added Author Jansen, Jonathan D., editor.
Auerbach, Jess, editor.
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