Chapter Introduction: A Life Science in Its African Para-State

In Para-States and Medical Science, P. Wenzel Geissler and the contributors examine how medicine and public health in Africa have been transformed as a result of economic and political liberalization and globalization, intertwined with epidemiological and technological changes. The resulting fragmen...

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Main Author: Wenzel Geissler, Paul (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Duke University Press 2015
Subjects:
HIV
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