The Politics of Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences South/African Perspectives /
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| Summary: | VI, 271 p. 1 illus. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer,
2023.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31913-6 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- An introduction to the politics of knowledge in medicine
- The invention of the Birthsuit: Medicine, the body and science in South African history
- Visualizing medicine: Photographing patients in 20th century South Africa
- Tied up in the genes: Racial biomedicine and the politics of knowledge
- “The reconfirmation of the same”: Recent genetic studies of the “Afrikaner population”
- Racism, colonialism, and the structure of medical knowledge in the Global COVID-19 vaccination campaign
- When not to decolonize
- Unmasked faces and tight vaginas: The politics of health rumors in Burkina Faso
- French biomedicine in Morocco: Data capitalism and imperial extractivism
- How the history and politics of occupational therapy shapes the profession and its practitioners
- The medicalization of the mind: On the politics of knowledge in clinical psychology.