Global health in africa : critical perspectives

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COURSE OUTLINE
GLOBAL HEALTH IN AFRICA
CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
Professor: Guillaume Lachenal
Academic Year 2015/2016: Spring Semester
COURSE OUTLINE
PART I: Global health and Africa’s place in the world, a genealogy
Session 1: Introduction: Africa’s health between utopia and dystopia
Required readings:
 Lachenal, G. "The doctor who would be king." Lancet 376, no. 9748 (2010): 1216-7. [pdf]
 « U.S. Launches AIDS-Awareness Campaign In Botswana: 'You All Have AIDS,' Says U.S. », The
Onion, USA, Sep. 2005.[pdf]
Recommended readings:
 Dozon, Jean-Pierre. "D'un tombeau à l'autre." Cahiers d'Études africaines 121-122, no. XXXI-1-2
(1991): 135-57.[pdf]
 Comaroff, Jean. "The diseased heart of Africa: medicine, colonialism and the black body." In
Knowledge, Power and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life, edited by Shirley
Lindenbaum and Margaret Lock, 305-29. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. [reader]
 Lachenal, Guillaume. "Le médecin qui voulut être roi. Médecine coloniale et utopie au Cameroun."
Annales HSS 65, no. 1 (2010): 121-56. [pdf]
 or [English translation] : Lachenal, Guillaume. "Experimental hubris and medical powerlessness. Notes
from a colonial utopia, Cameroon, 1939-1949." In Biomedicine and governance in Africa, edited by R.
 Rottenburg and J. Zenker, in press. Heidelberg: Transcript-Verlag, 2012. [reader]
Session 2: Racial visions and divisions in colonial medicine, 1800-1960
Required readings:
 Curtin, Phillip D. "Medical Knowledge and Urban Planning in Tropical Africa." American
HistoricalReview90 (1985): 594-613. [pdf]
 Dozon, Jean-Pierre. "Quand les pastoriens traquaient la maladie du sommeil." Sciences sociales et
santé III, no. 3-4 (1985): 27-56. [pdf]
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 Delaunay, Karine. "Faire de la santé un lieu pour l'histoire de l'Afrique: essai d'historiographie." OutreMers93, no. 346-347 (2005): 7-46. [pdf]
 Vaughan, Megan. Curing their ills: colonial power and African illness. Cambridge: Polity, 1991,
Introduction &chapter 1. [reader]
 Marks, Shula. "What is colonial about colonial medicine? And what has happened to imperialism and
health?" Social History of Medicine10 (1997): 205-19. [pdf]
Session 3: Post-colonial hopes: decolonisation, disease eradication and the dream of « health for all »,
1960-1990
Required readings:
 Packard Randall, « Malaria Dreams. Visions of Health and Development in the Third World », Medical
Anthropology, Vol. 17, 1997, pp. 279–296 [pdf]
 Document: « West and Central African Smallpox eradication/measles control program, Manual of
operations », CDC; Smallpox eradication program, Atlanta, 1966, p. 1-35. [pdf]
 Christophe Bonneuil, « Development as Experiment. Science and State Building in Late Colonial and
 Postcolonial Africa, 1930–1970 », in: Roy MacLeod (ed.), Nature and Empire. Science and the
Colonial Enterprise, Chicago 2001, pp. 258–281, [pdf]
 Lachenal, Guillaume. "The intimate rules of the French "Coopération"." In Ethos, ethnography and
experiment, edited by Wenzel Geissler, 373-401. Oxford: Berghan, 2011. [pdf]
Session 4: Neoliberal ruins, HIV-Aids and the rise of global health, 1990-present
Required readings:
 Schoepf, Brooke et. al. 2000, "Theoretical Therapies, Remote Remedies: SAPs and the Political
Ecology of Poverty and Health in Africa. " in Dying for Growth. Global Inequality and the Health of the
Poor. Common Courage Press, Monroe, Maine, pp. 91-126.
 Nguyen, Vinh-Kim. The republic of therapy.Triage and sovereignty in West Africa's time of AIDS.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. [Introduction; Chapter 6]
 Eboko, Fred. "Patterns of Mobilization: Political Culture in the Fight against AIDS." In The African State
and the AIDS crisis, edited by Amy S. Patterson. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2005. [pdf]
 Geissler, Wenzel 2011. Parasite lost: remembering modern times with Kenyan government medical
scientists. In Evidence, ethos and experiment: the anthropology and history of medical research in
Africa, edited by Geissler, Wenzel & Catherine Molyneux. New York: Berghahn Books, 207-232. [pdf]
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 Kamat Vinay, « “This Is Not Our Culture!” Discourses of Nostalgia and Narratives of Health Concerns
in Post-Socialist Tanzania », Africa, Vol. 78, No. 3, 2008, pp. 359–383 [pdf]
 Iliffe, John. The African AIDS epidemic: a history. Oxford: James Currey, 2006., p. 65-111
PART II Visions of Africa in times of global health
Session 5: Africa as a laboratory: the ethics and politics of medical experimentations in Africa
Required readings:
 Geissler, P. W., and R. Pool. "Editorial: Popular concerns about medical research projects in subSaharan Africa - a critical voice in debates about medical research ethics." Trop Med Int Health11, no.
7 (2006): 975-82. [pdf]
 Wendland, Claire. Research, Therapy, and Bioethical Hegemony: The Controversy over Prenatal HIV
Research in Africa. African Studies Review 51(3):1-23 [pdf]
 Geissler PW. (2005) ‘Kachinja are coming!’ Encounters around a medical research project in a
Kenyan village. Africa, 2005, 75 (2), 173-202 [pdf]
 Petryna, Adriana. "Ethical variability: Drug development and globalizing clinical trials." American
Ethnologist32, no. 2 (2005): 183-97. [pdf]
Session 6: Africa as a reservoir of pathogens: the emerging diseases worldview
Required readings:
 America's Vital Interest in Global Health: Protecting Our People, Enhancing Our Economy, and
Advancing Our International Interests (1997), Institute of Medicine (IOM), Summary and Chapter 4.
[pdf]
 Nathan Wolfe’s profiles, The New Yorker, January 2011; Nature, December 2009 [pdf]
 Lachenal, Guillaume. "Lessons in medical nihilism. Virus hunters, neoliberalism and the AIDS crisis in
Cameroon." In Science and the Parastate in Africa, edited by P. W. Geissler, in press. Durham: Duke
University Press, 2012. [pdf]
 King, Nicholas B. "Security, disease, commerce: ideologies of postcolonial global health." Social
studies of science 32, no. 5 (2002): 763-89. [pdf]
 Lakoff, Andrew. "Two regimes of global health." Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights,
Humanitarianism, and Development 1.1 (2010): 59-79.[pdf]
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Session 7: Africa as an object of compassion: medical missions, humanitarism and philanthropy
Required readings:
 Fassin, Didier. 2007. "Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life." Public Culture 19, no. 3: 499-520. [pdf]
 Roland Barthes, “Bichon chez les Nègres”, in Mythologies (1959) [reader]
 Taithe, Bertrand. "Reinventing (French) universalism: religion, humanitarianism and the "French
Doctors"." Modern &Contemporary France 12, no. 2 (2004): 147-58. [pdf]
 Lakoff, Andrew. "Two regimes of global health." Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights,
Humanitarianism, and Development 1.1 (2010): 59-79.[pdf]
 Peter Redfield "Doctors, Borders and Life in Crisis." Cultural Anthropology. 20:3 (Aug.), 328361. (2005) [pdf]
Session 8: Miracle cures, Afrocentrism and the reinvention of tradition
Requiredreadings:
 Fassin, Didier. "Le sida comme cause politique." Les Temps Modernes, no. 620-621
(2002): 312-31. [reader]
 Fassin, Didier. Quand les corps se souviennent. Expériences et politiques du Sida en Afrique du Sud.
Paris: La Découverte, 2006. Chap. 2, p. 67-127 ; English translation in Fassin, Didier. When bodies
remember: experiences and politics of AIDS in South Africa,. Berkeley; London: University of
California Press, 2007.
 Cassidy, Rebecca, and Melissa Leach. "Science, politics and the presidential Aids "cure"."
AfricanAffairs108 (2009): 559-80. [pdf]
 Obadare, Ebenezer, and Iruka N. Okeke. "Biomedical loopholes, distrusted state, and the politics of
HIV/AIDS "cure" in Nigeria." AfricanAffairs110, no. 439 (2011): 191-211. [pdf]
PART III Case studies in the politics of global health in
contemporary Africa
Session 9: The question of culture in global health. Lessons from the fight against AIDS & TB
Required readings:
 Packard, Randall M., and Paul Epstein. "Epidemiologists, social scientists and the structure of medical
research on Aids in Africa." Social science and medicine33, no. 771-794 (1991). [pdf]
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 Dozon, Jean-Pierre, and Didier Fassin. "Raison épidémiologique et raisons d'Etat. Les enjeux sociopolitiques du sida en Afrique." Sciences sociales et santé VII, no. 1 (1989): 21-36. [pdf]
 Rushton and Bogart, « Population différences in susceptibility to AIDS: an evolutionary analysis »,
Soc. Sc. Med. Vol. 28. No. 12, pp. 1211-1220, 1989 [pdf]
 Paul Farmer, Infections and inequalities. The modern plagues, University of California Press, 1999.
« Immodest claims of causality », Chapter 9 « p 228-261 [reader]
Assignment for this session:
Paper 1, 10-15 pages, biography of a global health figure/technology/issue
Session 10: Access to HIV treatment - global triage and local activism
Required readings:
 Nguyen, Vinh-Kim. "Antiretroviral globalism, biopolitics and therapeutic citizenship." In Global
assemblages: technology, politics, and ethics as anthropological problems, edited by AihwaOng and
Stephen J. Collier, 122-44. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2005. [reader]
 Iliffe, John. The African AIDS epidemic: a history. Oxford: James Currey, 2006, chapter 13, 139-159.
 O’Manique, Colleen, Globalization and gendered vulnerabilities to HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan
Africa, in Jennifer Klot and Vinh-Kim Nguyen, The Fourth Wave. Violence, gender and HIV in the 21st
Century, UNESCO, Paris (2012), p. 37-52 [reader]
 Coriat, Benjamin, Ed., 2008, The Political Economy of HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries, London,
Edgar Edward Editor
 Nguyen, Vinh-Kim. The republic of therapy. Triage and sovereignty in West Africa's time of AIDS.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. [Chapter 4; Conclusion]
Session 11: Oral presentations of group works - global health controversies
Assignment for this session:
Group paper: 2 pages “blog style” paper on a global health controversy.
Session 12: Ebola: the manufacture of an epidemic
Required readings:
 Nguyen, Vinh-Kim. "Ebola: How We Became Unprepared, and What Might Come Next." Cultural
Anthropology Online, October 07, 2014, http://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/605-ebola-how-we-becameunprepared-and-what-might-come-next
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 Lachenal, Guillaume. « Ebola, chronique d’un film catastrophe bien préparé », Libération, Septembre
2014.

Global health in africa : critical perspectives

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