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.
Drawing on research conducted in the U.S. and Uganda during the
mid-2000s, Crane provides a fascinating ethnographic account of the
transnational flow of knowledge, politics, and research money-as
well as blood samples, viruses, and drugs. She takes readers to
underfunded Ugandan HIV clinics as well as to laboratories and
conference rooms in wealthy American cities like San Francisco and
Seattle where American and Ugandan experts struggle to forge shared
knowledge about the AIDS epidemic. The resulting uncomfortable mix
of preventable suffering, humanitarian sentiment, and scientific
ambition shows how global health research partnerships may
paradoxically benefit from the very inequalities they aspire to
redress. A work of outstanding interdisciplinary scholarship,
Scrambling for Africa will be of interest to audiences in
anthropology, science and technology studies, African studies, and
the medical humanities.
eISBN: 978-0-8014-6906-0
Subjects: Anthropology, Health Sciences
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