General information
| Course name | Seminar: Future Health in Africa |
| Course number | MA: REG |
| Semester | WS 2018/19 |
| Current number of participants | 4 |
| Home institute | Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie |
| participating institutes | Lectures and Courses in English (International Studies) |
| Courses type | Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen |
| First date | Tuesday, 23.10.2018 12:15 - 13:45 |
| Participants | This seminar explores recent debates and issues of biomedicine in Africa. Over the past decades diseases like HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and more recently Ebola have powerfully shaped our imagination of the African continent. Ideas like Global Health have been crafting a field of biomedical knowledge production by designing experiments, interventions, and measures that cannot be carried out elsewhere. At the same time scientific understandings of health have also changed toward a more ‘holistic’ perspective on health that is cognizant of war, poverty, and now environmental degradation. In this seminar we will explore the formation of biomedicine in Africa through a genealogical analysis of biomedicine in Africa. We will ask how health problems become real through scientific problematizations and reasonings about human and nonhuman life, and its variegated entanglements. Based on the genealogical critique of biomedicine we will debate what future health in Africa might mean. |
| Studiengänge (für) |
MA Ethnologie (45/75/120) Master IAS |
| SWS | 2 |
| Miscellanea |
Besonderheiten: Der Kurs wird auf Englisch unterrichtet. Alle Studien- und Modulleistungen werden auf Englisch erbracht. Participants will be invited to participate at the international summer school From disasters to planetary care funded by the VW Foundation. The summer school is planned to take place 4.-14.2.2019 in Freetown/Sierra Leone. |
