ECAS 2009
3rd European Conference on African Studies
Leipzig, 4 to 7 June 2009

Panel 42: On Biomedicine, Governance and Experimentation (1): Biomedicine and governance: theorizing the relations between science and administration (Babette Mueller-Rockstroh)

Panel Organiser: Babette Mueller-Rockstroh

In Africa, biomedical research and health services have been conducted jointly over the past century, shaping landscapes of healing and scientific experimentation. This conduct leads to the emergence of interstitial spaces where regimes of governance, techno-scientific practices and social reproduction are undergoing significant changes. We invite papers that explore these shifting constellations and the emergence of new relationships between bodies, politics and science.

Accepted Abstracts

Negotiating health interventions in Ifakara/Tanzania 1970-1990
'The rings around Jonathan's eyes': HIV/AIDS medicine at the margins of administration.
Feeding dilemmas. Infant Feeding, Policies and Science in Contexts of HIV
Assisted reproductive technologies in the private health sector in Mali - a field of contradicting biomedical and political aims?