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 …

In A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King
Leopold's Congo Free State. Discarding catastrophe as narrative form, she instead brings …

“Engaging unique sources... Londa Schiebinger untangles the complex relationships
between European and local physicians, healers, plants, and slavery.”—François Regourd …

The persistent influence of coloniality both from external actors and from within threatens the
response to COVID-19 in Africa. This essay presents historical context for the colonial …

Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major
global health challenges to humanity. The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches …

In this book, we discuss the changing medical and public profile of fungal infections in the
period 1850–2000. We consider four sets of diseases: ringworm and athlete's foot …

The global coffee industry, which fuels the livelihoods of farmers, entrepreneurs, and
consumers around the world, rests on fragile ecological foundations. In Coffee Is Not …

In 1893, a group of colonial officials from thirteen countries abandoned their imperial rivalry
and established the International Colonial Institute (ICI), which became the world's most …

The Experiment Must Continue is a beautifully articulated ethnographic history of medical
experimentation in East Africa from 1940 through 2014. In it, Melissa Graboyes combines …

In The Colonial Politics of Global Health, Jessica Lynne Pearson explores the collision
between imperial and international visions of health and development in French Africa as …