Human African trypanosomiasis, better known as sleeping sickness, nowadays ranks
among the more neglected diseases in the countries of Africa where it is found. Though it …

La race a une histoire, qui renvoie à l'histoire de la différence sexuelle. Au XVIIe siècle, les
discours médicaux conçoivent le corps des femmes comme un corps malade et l'affligent de …

Original and compelling, Laura Briggs's Reproducing Empire shows how, for both Puerto
Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and gender have …

In recent years the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has emerged as this era's most
renowned, and arguably its most influential, global health player. A century ago, the …

Biomedicine in an Unstable Place is the story of people's struggle to make biomedicine work
in a public hospital in Papua New Guinea. It is a story encompassing the history of hospital …

Behind the euphoric narrative of India as an emerging world power lies a complex and
evolving relationship between science and religion. Evoking the rich mythology of …

Nineteenth-century French writers and travelers imagined Muslim colonies in North Africa to
be realms of savage violence, lurid sexuality, and primitive madness. Colonial Madness …

In this lesson-packed book, Mark Nichter, one of the world's leading medical
anthropologists, summarizes what more than a quarter-century of health social science …

This special issue of Postcolonial Studies is divided into two parts. In the first, three leading
scholars of postcolonial science studies* a philosopher, an anthropologist, and an historian …

Networks in Tropical Medicine explores how European doctors and scientists worked
together across borders to establish the new field of tropical medicine in the late nineteenth …