Scrambling for Africa: AIDS, expertise, and the rise of American global health science

Countries in sub-Saharan Africa were once dismissed by Western experts as being too poor and chaotic to benefit from the antiretroviral drugs that transformed the AIDS epidemic in the United States and Europe. Today, however, the region is courted by some of the most prestigious research universitie...

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Main Author: Crane, Johanna Tayloe (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [u.a.] Cornell Univ. Press 2013
Series:Expertise : cultures and technologies of knowledge
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Summary:Countries in sub-Saharan Africa were once dismissed by Western experts as being too poor and chaotic to benefit from the antiretroviral drugs that transformed the AIDS epidemic in the United States and Europe. Today, however, the region is courted by some of the most prestigious research universities in the world as they search for "resource-poor" hospitals in which to base their international HIV research and global health programs. In Scrambling for Africa, Johanna Tayloe Crane reveals how, in the space of merely a decade, Africa went from being a continent largely excluded from advancements in HIV medicine to an area of central concern and knowledge production within the increasingly popular field of global health science
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-202) and index
Physical Description:XIII, 208 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:9780801451959
0801451957
9780801479175
0801479177

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