Multiple Healths: Pasts, presents and futures of biomedicine and wellbeing in/with Africa
An international symposium organized by Forum for Africa Studies at Uppsala University.
Dates: 11-12 May 2017, Uppsala, Sweden
Place: Sydney Alrutz Room, 13:026 Blåsenhus, von Kraemers Allé 1A, Uppsala, Sweden
Participation is free and open to the public. However, please register your participation here.
In this symposium we ask how local aspirations for, and visions of, health and well-being in African contexts are, or have been, facilitated, compromised, or bypassed by globally connected bio-medical projects and practices. Moving beyond critiques of evidence-based medicine or globally mobile models of medical knowledge and practice, the symposium explores cases where local actors and organizations seek to realize improvements in health that do not always conform to coexisting global/regional/national health priorities, programmes, policies or concepts. We further explore actor’s explicit, implicit and hidden strategies for capturing global practices and resource flows to facilitate local visions of health and well-being in Africa.
Thursday, 11 May
9.30 Eren Zink, Coordinator, Forum for Africa Studies
Opening of the Symposium and Welcome
9.45 Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, Dept of History, University of Texas at Austin, USA
‘Don't use herbs!' Healers, birthing and access to care in late 20th Century Ghana
10.30 Fika/Coffee
11.00 Bilinda Straight, Dept of Anthropology and Dept of Gender and Women’s Studies, Western Michigan University, USA
Health on the move: Pastoralist access to care in contexts of conflict and food insecurity
11.45 Lunch break
13.15 Ruth Prince, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Norway
Ruination, refusal and the struggle for public health in Kenya
14.00 Short papers (3 papers by Pallangyo, Holloway, , Zink)
15.00 Fika/Coffee
15.30 Esmeralda Mariano, Dept of Anthropology, Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique
Medical spaces and practices as plural and without boundaries in southern Mozambique
16.15 Closing comments
16.30 End of Day 1
Friday, 12 May
9.15 Hussein Kidanto, Ministry of Health and Dept of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Muhimbili University, Tanzania
Poverty and its impact on maternal deaths in less resource countries: The Tanzania experience
10.00 Fika/Coffee
10.30 Noémi Tousignant, Dept of History, Université de Montréal, Canada
Accreted infrastructure and global health: Demographic surveillance and poison control in Senegal
11.15 P. Wenzel Geissler, Dept of Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway
‘Repressed rage'? A story of being Africanised
12.00 Lunch
13.30 Hannah Akuffo, Unit of Research Cooperation, Sida, Sweden
Research capacity strengthening for real
14.15 Short papers (3 papers by Lindahl & Grace, Målqvist, and Sebestyén)
15.15 Fika/Coffee
15.45 Roundtable and Discussion
Multiple healths: Ways forward?
16.45 Closing comments
17.00 End of Day 2