Ruth Jane Prince

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Academic Interests

medical anthropology; global health; care and chronic disease; citizenship and the state; health systems; epidemics; anthropology of health insurance; environmental anthropology; chemical ethnography; anthropology of toxicity; postcolonial studies; East Africa; Kenya

Higher education and employment history

Ruth Prince is professor in medical anthropology at the Institute of Health and Society. She trained as an anthropologist at the universities of Copenhagen, UCL, and Oxford. 

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Ruth leads an European Research Council Starting Grant project titled "Universal Health Coverage and the Public Good in Africa: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives". This 5-year anthropological and historical study (until 2024) explores how African states are experimenting with social protection, healthcare and welfare, and what this means for citizenship, the state, and the public good in a context of increasing inequality and expanding private health care markets. Prince's research focuses on health insurance and universal health care experiments in Kenya, following a) the work of state bureaucracies, b) the role of formal forms of social protection and informal social solidarity networks in mediating access to health care, and c) the transforming landscape of public health and private health care markets. The larger research team is conducting ethnographic and historical research with state bureaucracies and global health actors, healthcare institutions, health insurance and digital health projects, and citizenship groups.

Before taking up her current position Ruth Prince was Senior Research Associate at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Prior positions include a Mellon fellowship in "Science, Medicine and Society in Africa" held at the University of Cambridge and ESRC and Smuts Postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Cambridge (Centre for African Studies, Department of Social Anthropology).

Recent publications include a special issue "Curious Utopias" in Social Anthropology as well as special issues in Africa, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, African Studies Review, Visual Anthropology and Anthropology Today. Book projects include Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa, with Rebecca Marsland (Ohio UP, 2014), and Volunteer Economies, edited with Hannah Brown (James Currey, 2016). The Land is Dying: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya, written with Wenzel Geissler,  was co-winner of the Royal Anthropological Institute’s 2010 Amuary Talbot Prize for best book in African Anthropology.

Recent research:

1) Care, solidarity and inequality: an ethnographic exploration of Kenya's experiments with universal health care and health insurance (UNIVERSAL HEALTH)

2) "Chronic disease and care". Research focused on labours and practices of care surrounding chronic disease in Kenya. (NRC FRISAM, 2013-2017). 

3) "Engagement and detachment: An ethnographic study of the moral dilemmas surrounding care in a public hospital". Research explored struggles surrounding care in a public hospital in Kenya in the context of austerity, growing socio-economic inequality, and the expansion of private medical markets. (Norwegian Research Council, FRISAM fellowship, 2013-2017).

4) "Developmental modernism in the east African city: Soviet medical aid to Kenya and its afterlives". Research explored legacies of the cold war in Kenya, drawing on archival work and oral histories of Kenyan doctors trained in the Soviet Union. 

5) “Volunteer economies: Urban youth, labour, precarity, and the east African city”; Wellcome Trust collaborative pilot grant on “Street-level health workers in African cities” (2011-12). 

6) “Humanitarian interventions and moral economies of care”: Focusing on urban Kenya, this project explored forms of claim-making taking shape around humanitarian and transnational interventions into health. (University of Cambridge Smuts fund, Mellon Foundation, and Max Planck institute for Social Anthropology) (2008-2011).

PhD supervision (current)

  • Vilde Fastvold Thorbjørnsen
  • Cynthia Khamala Wangamati (completed 2019)
  • Edwin Ambani Ameso (co-) (completed 2022)
  • Samwel Ntapanda (co-) (completed 2022)
  • Miriam Waltz (co-) (completed 2022)
  • Signe Mikkelsen
  • Mariam Yusuf Florence
  • Hassan Njie (co-) (completed 2023)
  • Alex  Muriithi Gateri (co-)
  • Lulu Tessua
  • Bjørn Hallstein Holte (co-) (completed 2018)

Teaching

Honoraria

  • The Royal Anthropological Institute’s Amuary Talbot Prize for best book in African Anthropology, 2010. Awarded to "The Land is Dying Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in western Kenya" by PW Geissler & RJ Prince
  • Winner of the RAI's Documentary Film Student Prize 2003.  For "Adhiambo - Born in the Evening. Two Months in the Life of a Kenyan Mother and her Newborn Daughter". Prince, RJ, Geissler PW, Tuchtenhagen G., Neubert-Maric, M. 2002. (Digital Video Film, 68 min.). Copenhagen, Hamburg and Cambridge: Filmwerkstatt Dokumentarisch Arbeiten (Distr. Royal Anthropological Institute).

Research grants and appointments

  • European Research Council Starting Grant (PI) (SH5) (2018-23)
  • Norwegian Research Council FRIPRO/Global Health (PI) (2021-2025)
  • Norwegian Research Council FRISAM fellowship (2013-6)
  • Senior Research Associate, Dep of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
  • Mellon Fellow, University of Cambridge, 2010-12 (History and Philosophy of Science and Centre of African Studies)
  • Smuts Research Fellow, Centre of African Studies, Cambridge, 2007-10
  • ESRC Postdoctoral fellow, Dep of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 2007-8

Cooperation

  • I work with partners in Kenya (University of Nairobi and Maseno University, and the Kenya Medical Research Institute, KEMRI), in Tanzania (the University of Dar-es-Salaam and the National Institute of Medical Research, NIMRI) and in Uganda (Makerere University)

Tags: Medical Anthropology, Global Health, Postcoloniality, Anthropology of Toxicity, Chemical ethnography; the state, bureaucracy, citizenship, welfare; postcolonial science studies, Africa, Kenya

Publications

BOOKS, SPECIAL ISSUES & EDITED BOOKS

2022. Prince, R.J. and T. Neumark. Curious Utopias. Dreaming Big Again in the 21st Century? Social Anthropology vol 30, issue 2, special issue.

2021. Geissler, P.W. and Prince, RJ. Toxic Worldings Part II. Special issue, Anthropology Today 37 (4),.https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678322/2021/37/4

2020. Geissler, P.W. and Prince, RJ. Toxic Worldings Part I. Special issue, Anthropology Today 36 (6).‘Toxic worldings’: Introduction to toxic flows - GEISSLER - 2020 - Anthropology Today - Wiley Online Library

2016. Prince, Ruth J. and Hannah Brown (eds.). Volunteer Economies: The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa. Oxford: James Currey. https://boydellandbrewer.com/volunteer-economies.html

Geissler, PW & RJ Prince 2010. ‘The Land is Dying’: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya. Oxford: Berghahn books. *Co-winner of the Royal Anthropological Institute's 2010 Amaury Talbot Prize for best book in African Anthropology

2016. Lynteris, C. & Prince, RJ. (eds.) “Anthropology, Medicine and Photography”. Special Issue, Visual Anthropology  29 (2) (April 2016). http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gvan20/29/2                     

2014. Prince, RJ & R. Marsland (eds.) Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa. Ethnographic Perspectives. Athens: Ohio University Press http://www.ohioswallow.com/extras/9780821420577_toc_and_introduction.pdf

https://www.ohioswallow.com/book/Making+and+Unmaking+Public+Health+in+Africa

2015. Brown, H. & R. Prince (eds). Special issue on Voluntary Labour in East Africa. African Studies Review 58 (2) (September 2015) Introduction: Volunteer Labor—Pasts and Futures of Work, Development, and Citizenship in East Africa | African Studies Review | Cambridge Core

2012.  Marsland, R. & R.J. Prince (eds.) What is Life Worth? Exploring Biomedical Interventions, Survival and the Politics of Life (Special issue for Medical Anthropology Quarterly vol 26(4) (December 2012).

2009. Prince, RJ., van Dijk, R. & Denis, P. (eds.). Christianity and HIV/AIDS in Africa. Special Issue, Africa Today 56(1).


ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2023). Private health care, cancer, and the vulnerable middle class in Kenya. American Ethnologist. ISSN 0094-0496. doi: 10.1111/amet.13219.

  • Muinde, Jacinta Victoria Syombua; Kehr, Janina & Prince, Ruth Jane (2023). Health for all? Pasts, presents and futures of aspirations for universal healthcare. Social Science and Medicine. ISSN 0277-9536. 319. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115660.

  • Muinde, Jacinta Victoria Syombua & Prince, Ruth Jane (2022). A new universalism? Universal health coverage and debates about rights, solidarity and inequality in Kenya. Social Science and Medicine. ISSN 0277-9536. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115258.

  • Ameso, Edwin Ambani & Prince, Ruth Jane (2022). Striking health workers: Precarity and healthcare in neoliberal Kenya. Anthropology Today. ISSN 0268-540X. 38(4), p. 11–14. doi: 10.1111/1467-8322.12742.

  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2022). Beyond Failure: Bureaucratic Labour and the Will to Improve in Kenya’s Experiments with Universal Health Care. Social Anthropology. ISSN 0964-0282. 30(2), p. 56–80. doi: 10.3167/saas.2022.300205.

  • Prince, Ruth Jane & Neumark, Tom (2022). Curious Utopias: Dreaming Big Again in the Twenty-first Century? Social Anthropology. ISSN 0964-0282. 30(2), p. 1–15. doi: 10.3167/saas.2022.300202Full text in Research Archive

  • 2020. Geissler, P.W. and Prince, RJ. Toxic Worldings. Special issue, Anthropology Today 36 (6), December 2020.‘Toxic worldings’: Introduction to toxic flows - GEISSLER - 2020 - Anthropology Today - Wiley Online Library

  • 2020.  Prince, Ruth J. From Russia with Love: Medical Modernities, Development Dreams, and Cold War Legacies in Kenya. Africa vol 90, issue 1: 51-76. (Special issue on "Beyond Realism: Africa´s Medical Dreams"). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972019001025

  • 2021. Prince, Ruth J. Malignant stories: the chronicity of cancer and the pursuit of care in Kenya. In Rethinking Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives. M. Vaughan, M. Mika & M. Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo. London: UCL Press. Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub Saharan Africa – UCL Press

  • 2020. Geissler, PW, Prince, RJ. Layers of epidemy: Present pasts during the first weeks of COVID‐19 in western Kenya. Centaurus. 2020; 62: 248– 256. https://doi.org/10.1111/1600-0498.1229

  • 2019. Prince, Ruth J. Pandemic Publics: How Epidemics Transform Social and Political Collectives of Health. In "The Anthropology of Epidemics", edited by Kelly, Ann H., Keck, Frédéric & Lynteris, Christos. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, pp 135-153. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429461897

  • 2018. Prince, Ruth J. Death, Detachment and Moral Dilemmas of Care in a Kenyan Hospital. In "A Companion to the Anthropology of Death", edited by Antonius C. G. M. Robben. (Wiley Blackwell), pp 445-460.

  • 2018. Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Prince, Ruth Jane & Mishra, Arima The politics of health systems strengthening, In Richard Parker & Garcia Jonathan (ed.),  Routledge Handbook on the Politics of Global Health.  Routledge.  ISBN 131529723X.  10.

  • 2017. Prince, Ruth J. Universal Health Coverage in the Global South: New models of healthcare and their implications for citizenship, solidarity and the public good. Michael 81: 153-172. (Open Access)

  • Lynteris, C & Prince, RJ.  (2016) Anthropology and Medical Photography: Ethnographic, Critical and Comparative Perspectives. Introduction to the Special Issue. Visual Anthropology 29 (2): 101-117.

  • Prince, R.J. (2016) The diseased body and the global subject: the circulation and consumption of an iconic AIDS photograph in East Africa. Visual Anthropology 29 (2): 159-186. Special Issue on “Anthropology, Medicine and Photography”

  • Prince , R.J. (2016) What’s the Matter with Global Health? Current History 115(781): 163-168.

  • Prince, R.J. (2016) Anthropology and Empire. In The Encyclopedia of Empire (eds N. Dalziel and J.M. MacKenzie). Wiley.  https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118455074.wbeoe370

  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Prince, Ruth Jane (2016). Kisumu: global health amnesia., In Traces of the Future: An Archaeology of Medical Science in Twenty First Century Africa..  Intellect Ltd..  ISBN 978-1-78320-725-1.  Part 4.  s 209 - 213

  • Prince, Ruth J, (2015). Seeking Incorporation? Voluntary labor and the ambiguities of work, identity, and social value in contemporary Kenya. African Studies Review 58(2), s 85- 109.  ISSN 0002-0206. . doi: 10.1017/asr.2015.39

  • Brown, Hannah & Prince, Ruth J. (2015). Volunteer labor: Pasts and futures of work, development, and citizenship in East Africa. African Studies Review. 8(2) 29- 42. ISSN 0002-0206.  doi: 10.1017/asr.2015.36

  • Prince RJ. 2014. Precarious Projects: Conversions of Biomedical Knowledge in an East African City. Medical Anthropology 33(1): 68-83.nOpen access article, available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01459740.2013.833918

  • Prince RJ and P.Otieno. 2014. In the Shadowlands of Global Health: Observations from Health Workers in Kenya. Global Public Health 9 (8):927-945. Open access article, available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17441692.2014.941897#.VBgi9XY4VaQ

  • Prince RJ. 2013. Introduction: Situating Health and the Public in Africa. In R. Prince & R. Marsland (eds.) Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives. Athens: Ohio University Press.

  • Prince, RJ.  2013. Navigating Global Health in an East African City. In Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives, edited by RJ. Prince & R. Marsland, Athens: Ohio University Press.

  • Prince, RJ. 2013. Tarmacking” in the Millennium City: Spatial and Temporal Trajectories of “Empowerment” in Kenya. Africa, 83:582-605.Open access article, available at http://journals.cambridge.org/repo_A90EtdG9

  • Wenzel Geissler, Ann H. Kelly, John Manton, Ruth J. Prince and Noemi Tousignant. 2013. Introduction: Sustaining the Life of the Polis. Africa 83:531-538. Open access article, available at http://journals.cambridge.org/repo_A90awoLO

  • Madiega, PA, Jones, G, Prince, RJ, Geissler, PW. 2013. ‘She’s my Sister-in-law, my Visitor, my Friend’ – Experiences of Home Follow-up in Clinical HIV Research in Western Kenya. Developing World Bioethics 13(1): 21-30.

  • Prince, RJ. 2012. HIV and the Moral Economy of Survival in an East African City. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 26(4): 534-556. (December 2012).

  • Marsland, R & RJ Prince. 2012. Introduction: What is Life Worth? Exploring Biomedical Interventions, Survival and the Politics of Life (part of the special issue on ‘What is Life Worth’ for Medical Anthropology Quarterly 26(4): 453-469. (December 2012).http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maq.12006/abstract

  • http://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/IR/00/00/20/23/00001/Prince2012.pdf

  • Prince, RJ. 2012. The Politics and Anti-Politics of HIV: healthcare and welfare in contemporary Kenya. In R. Rottenburg. P.W.Geissler & J. Zenker (eds.) Rethinking Biomedicine and Governance in Africa: Contributions from Anthropology. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/244829/Politcs%26AntipoliticsOfHIV.BUC2028_Prince.pdf?sequence=1

  • Prince, RJ. 2011. Public debates about ‘Luo widow inheritance’ in relation to Christianity, tradition and AIDS in western Kenya. In H. Englund (ed) Christianity and Public Culture in Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press.

  • Geissler PW. & Prince, RJ. 2010. Purity is Danger: Ambiguities of touch around sickness and death in western Kenya. In: Morality, Hope and Grief. Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa. Luig U & H. Dilger (eds.). Oxford: Berghahn.

  • Geissler PW & Prince RJ. 2010. Persons and relations in Luo plant medicines. In: Plants, health and healing. Explorations on the interface of medical anthropology and ethnobotany. Hsu, E & Harris, S (eds). Oxford: Berghahn.

  • Geissler P.W. & Prince, RJ. 2009. Active Compounds and Atoms of Society: Plants, Bodies, Minds and Cultures in the Work of Kenyan Ethnobotanical Knowledge. Social Studies of Science 2009 39: 599-634.http://sss.sagepub.com/content/39/4/599.abstract

  • Prince, RJ. with R. van Dijk & P. Denis. 2009. Engaging Christianities: Negotiating HIV/AIDS, health and social relations in East and Southern Africa. Africa Today 56(1): v-xviii.

  • Prince, RJ. 2009. Christian Salvation and Luo Tradition: Arguments of faith in a time of death in western Kenya. Pp 49-88, in Becker, F. & W. Geissler, eds. AIDS and Religious Practice in Africa. Leiden: Brill.

  • Prince, RJ. 2008. Struggling for growth in western Kenya: Modernity, tradition, generation and gender. Pp 137-162, in Alber, E., S. van der Geest and S. R. Whyte, eds. Generations in Africa. Connections and Contrasts. Munster: Lit Verlag.

  • Adhiambo, P., Chantler, T., Jones, G. & Prince, RJ. 2008. ‘Our son Obama’. The US presidential election in western Kenya. Anthropology Today 24(6):4-8.

  • Prince RJ. 2007. Salvation and Tradition: configurations of faith in a time of death. Journal of Religion in Africa 37(1):84-115.

  • Geissler PW & Prince RJ. 2007. Life Seen: Touch and Vision in the Making of Sex in Western Kenya. Journal of Eastern African Studies 1(1):123 – 149.

  • Geissler PW & Prince, RJ. 2007. Christianity, Tradition, AIDS and pornography: knowing sex in western Kenya. In: On Knowing and Not Knowing in Anthropology. Littlewood, R (ed.) London: UCL Press.

  • Prince RJ. 2006. Popular music and Luo youth in western Kenya: ambiguities of modernity, morality and gender relations in the era of AIDS. In: Christiansen, C, Utas, M & Vigh, HE (eds.) Navigating Youth, Generating Adulthood: Social Becoming in an African Context. Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute.

  • 2005      Geissler PW & Prince, RJ.. Mission, Ueberlieferung, AIDS und Pornographie: Die Entdeckung des Sex im westlichen Kenya. Sociologus 54 (2):101-143.

  • 2004      Geissler PW & Prince, RJ.. Shared lives: Exploring practices of amity between grandmothers and grandchildren in western Kenya. Africa 74(1):95-120.

  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2023). Private health care, cancer, and the vulnerable middle class in Kenya. American Ethnologist. ISSN 0094-0496. doi: 10.1111/amet.13219.
  • Muinde, Jacinta Victoria Syombua; Kehr, Janina & Prince, Ruth Jane (2023). Health for all? Pasts, presents and futures of aspirations for universal healthcare. Social Science and Medicine. ISSN 0277-9536. 319. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115660. Full text in Research Archive
  • Muinde, Jacinta Victoria Syombua & Prince, Ruth Jane (2022). A new universalism? Universal health coverage and debates about rights, solidarity and inequality in Kenya. Social Science and Medicine. ISSN 0277-9536. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115258.
  • Ameso, Edwin Ambani & Prince, Ruth Jane (2022). Striking health workers: Precarity and healthcare in neoliberal Kenya. Anthropology Today. ISSN 0268-540X. 38(4), p. 11–14. doi: 10.1111/1467-8322.12742.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2022). Beyond Failure: Bureaucratic Labour and the Will to Improve in Kenya’s Experiments with Universal Health Care. Social Anthropology. ISSN 0964-0282. 30(2), p. 56–80. doi: 10.3167/saas.2022.300205.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane & Neumark, Tom (2022). Curious Utopias: Dreaming Big Again in the Twenty-first Century? Social Anthropology. ISSN 0964-0282. 30(2), p. 1–15. doi: 10.3167/saas.2022.300202. Full text in Research Archive
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2021). Malignant stories: the chronicity of cancer and the pursuit of care in Kenya. . In Vaughan, Megan; Adjaye-Gbewonyo., Kafui & Marissa, Mika (Ed.), Rethinking Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives.. UCL Press. ISSN 9781787357051. p. 322–349.
  • Neumark, Tom & Prince, Ruth Jane (2021). Digital health in East Africa: Innovation, experimentation and the market. Global Policy. ISSN 1758-5880. 12(6), p. 65–74. doi: 10.1111/1758-5899.12990. Full text in Research Archive
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2021). Cancer and contaminated food: Toxic uncertainties in western Kenya. Anthropology Today. ISSN 0268-540X. 37(4), p. 3–6. doi: 10.1111/1467-8322.12662. Full text in Research Archive
  • Aukrust, Camilla Grøver; Kamalo, Patrick Dongosolo; Prince, Ruth Jane; Sundby, Johanne; Mula, Chimwemwe & Manda-Taylor, Lucinda (2021). Improving competencies and skills across clinical contexts of care: a qualitative study on Malawian nurses' experiences in an institutional health and training programme. Nursing Open. ISSN 2054-1058. 8, p. 3170–3180. doi: 10.1002/nop2.1030. Full text in Research Archive
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Prince, Ruth Jane (2020). Toxic Worldings: Introduction to the special issue. Anthropology Today. ISSN 0268-540X. 36(6), p. 3–4. doi: 10.1111/1467-8322.12615.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane & Geissler, Paul Wenzel (2020). Layers of epidemy: Present pasts during the first weeks of COVID‐19 in western Kenya. Centaurus. Journal of the European Society for the History of Science. ISSN 0008-8994. 62(2), p. 248–256. doi: 10.1111/1600-0498.12295. Full text in Research Archive
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2020). From Russia with love: Medical modernities, development dreams, and cold war legacies in Kenya, 1969 and 2015. Africa. ISSN 0001-9720. 90(1), p. 51–76. doi: 10.1017/S0001972019001025.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2019). Pandemic Publics: How Epidemics Transform Social and Political Collectives of Health. In Kelly, Ann H; Keck, Frederic & Lynteris, Christos (Ed.), The Anthropology of Epidemics. Routledge. ISSN 9780367581947. p. 135–153. doi: %20https:/doi.org/10.4324/9780429461897.
  • Wangamati, Cynthia Khamala; Sundby, Johanne; Chimaraoke, Izugbara; Nyambedha, Erick Otieno & Prince, Ruth Jane (2019). Challenges in Supporting Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse in Kenya: A Qualitative Study of Government and Non-governmental Organizations . Journal of Interpersonal Violence. ISSN 0886-2605. doi: 10.1177/0886260519846864.
  • Wangamati, Cynthia Khamala; Yegon, Gladys; Sundby, Johanne & Prince, Ruth Jane (2019). Sexualised violence against children: A review of laws and policies in Kenya. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM). ISSN 2641-0397. 27(1). doi: 10.1080/26410397.2019.1586815. Full text in Research Archive
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2018). Death, Detachment, and Moral Dilemmas of Care in a Kenyan Hospital. In Robben, Antonius C. G. M. (Eds.), A Companion to the Anthropology of Death. John Wiley & Sons. ISSN 9781119222422. p. 445–460. doi: 10.1002/9781119222422.ch31.
  • Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Prince, Ruth Jane & Mishra, Arima (2018). The politics of health systems strengthening. In Parker, Richard & Jonathan, Garcia (Ed.), Routledge Handbook on the Politics of Global Health. Routledge. ISSN 131529723X. doi: 10.4324/9781315297255-11.
  • Wangamati, Cynthia; Sundby, Johanne & Prince, Ruth Jane (2018). Communities’ perceptions of factors contributing to child sexual abuse vulnerability in Kenya: a qualitative study. Culture, Health and Sexuality. ISSN 1369-1058. 20(12), p. 1394–1408. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2018.1438666.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2017). Universal Health Coverage in the Global South: New models of healthcare and their implications for citizenship, solidarity and the public good (OPEN ACCESS). Michael. ISSN 1893-9651. 14(2), p. 153–172. Full text in Research Archive
  • Prince, Ruth Jane & Lynteris, Christos (2016). Lynteris, Christos & Prince, Ruth Jane (2016). Anthropology and Medical Photography: Ethnographic, Critical and Comparative Perspectives. . Visual Anthropology. ISSN 0894-9468. 29(2), p. 101–117. doi: 10.1080/08949468.2016.1131104.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Prince, Ruth Jane (2016). Kisumu: global health amnesia. Traces of the Future: An Archaeology of Medical Science in Twenty First Century Africa.. Intellect Ltd.. ISSN 978-1-78320-725-1. p. 209–213.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2016). Public health and global interventions in Africa. Current history (1941). ISSN 0011-3530. 115(781), p. 163–168. doi: 10.1525/curh.2016.115.781.163.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2016). The Diseased Body and the Global Subject: The Circulation and Consumption of an Iconic AIDS Photograph in East Africa. Visual Anthropology. ISSN 0894-9468. 29(2), p. 159–186. doi: 10.1080/08949468.2016.1131517.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2015). Seeking Incorporation? Voluntary labor and the ambiguities of work, identity, and social value in contemporary Kenya. African Studies Review. ISSN 0002-0206. 58(2), p. 85–109. doi: 10.1017/asr.2015.39.
  • Brown, Hannah & Prince, Ruth Jane (2015). Introduction: volunteer labor-pasts and futures of work, development, and citizenship in East Africa. African Studies Review. ISSN 0002-0206. 58(2), p. 29–42. doi: 10.1017/asr.2015.36.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane & Otieno, Phelgona (2014). In the Shadowlands of Global Health: Observations from Health Workers in Kenya. Global Public Health. ISSN 1744-1692. 9(8), p. 927–945. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2014.941897. Full text in Research Archive
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2014). Precarious Projects: Conversions of (Biomedical) Knowledge in an East African City. Medical Anthropology. ISSN 0145-9740. 33(1), p. 68–83. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2013.833918.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Prince, Ruth Jane; Kelly, Ann H; Manton, J & Tousingnant, N (2013). Sustaining the life of the African Polis. Africa. ISSN 0001-9720. 83(4), p. 531–538.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Kelly, Ann H; Manton, John; Prince, Ruth Jane & Tousignant, Noemi (2013). Introduction: Sustaining the Life of the Polis. Africa. ISSN 0001-9720. 83(4), p. 531–538. doi: 10.1017/s0001972013000430.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2013). Navigating Global Health in an East African City. In Prince, Ruth Jane & Marsland, Rebecca (Ed.), Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives. Ohio University Press. ISSN 978-0821420584.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2013). Situating Health and the Public in Africa. In Prince, Ruth Jane & Marsland, Rebecca (Ed.), Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives. Ohio University Press. ISSN 978-0821420584.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2013). 'Tarmacking' in the millennium city:spatial and temporal trajectories of empowerment and development in Kisumu, Kenya. Africa. ISSN 0001-9720. 83(4), p. 582–605. doi: 10.1017/S0001972013000478.
  • Madiega, Philister Adhiambo; Jones, Gemma; Prince, Ruth Jane & Geissler, Paul Wenzel (2013). "She's My Sister-In-Law, My Visitor, My Friend" Challenges of Staff Identity in Home Follow-Up in an HIV Trial in Western Kenya. Developing World Bioethics. ISSN 1471-8731. 13(1), p. 21–29. doi: 10.1111/dewb.12019.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane & Marsland, Rebecca (2012). What is Life Worth? Exploring Biomedical Interventions, Survival and the Politics of Life. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. ISSN 0745-5194. 26(4), p. 453–469. doi: 10.1111/maq.12001.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2012). HIV and the Moral Economy of Survival in an East African City. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. ISSN 0745-5194. 26(4), p. 534–556. doi: 10.1111/maq.12006.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Prince, Ruth Jane (2010). Purity is Danger: Ambiguities of Touch around Sickness and Death in Western Kenya. In Dilger, Hansjörg & Luig, Ute (Ed.), MORALITY, HOPE AND GRIEF. Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa. Berghahn Books. ISSN 978-1-84545-663-4. p. 240–270.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane & Geissler, Paul Wenzel (2010). Purity is Danger: Ambiguities of Touch around Sickness and Death in Western Kenya . In Dilger, Hansjörg & Luig, Ute (Ed.), MORALITY, HOPE AND GRIEF. Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa. Berghahn Books. ISSN 978-1-84545-663-4.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Prince, Ruth Jane (2010). Persons, plants and relations: treating childhood illness in a western Kenyan village. In Hsu, Elisabeth & Harris, Stephen (Ed.), Plants, Health and Healing.On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology. Berghahn Books. ISSN 978-1-84545-060-1.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Prince, Ruth Jane (2007). Christianity, tradition, AIDS, and pornography : knowing sex in western Kenya. In Littlewood, Roland (Eds.), On Knowing and Not Knowing in the Anthropology of Medicine. Left Coast Press Inc.. ISSN 978-1598742756. p. 87–116.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Prince, Ruth Jane (2004). Shared lives: Exploring practices of amity between grandmothers and grandchildren in western Kenya. Africa. ISSN 0001-9720. 74(1), p. 95–120.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Prince, Ruth Jane; Harris, S; Olsen, A; Oketch, H & Nielsen, BS [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2002). Medicinal plants used by Luo mothers in Bondo District, Kenya. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. ISSN 0378-8741. 83, p. 39–54.
  • Sternberg, R; Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Prince, Ruth Jane; Nokes, K; Grigorenko, E & Bundy, DAP [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2001). The relationship between academic and practical intelligence: a case study in Kenya. Intelligence. ISSN 0160-2896. 29(5), p. 401–418.
  • Grigorenko, EL; Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Prince, Ruth Jane; Okatcha, F; Nokes, K & Kenny, DA [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2001). The organisation of Luo conceptions of intelligence: a study of implicit theories in a Kenyan village. International Journal of Behavioral Development. ISSN 0165-0254. 25(4), p. 367–378.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane; Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Nokes, K; Okatcha, F; Grigorenko, EL & Stenberg, RJ (2001). Knowledge of herbal and pharmaceutical medicines among Luo schoolchildren in western Kenya. Anthropology & Medicine. ISSN 1364-8470. 8(2/3), p. 211–135.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Prince, Ruth Jane; Meinert, L; Nokes, K & Ouma, JH (2001). Self–treatment practices among Kenyan and Ugandan children and the need for medicinal education in school health programs. Health Policy and Planning. ISSN 0268-1080. 16(4), p. 361–372.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Prince, Ruth Jane; Aagaard-Hansen, J & Ouma, JH (2000). Kenyan schoolchildren’s self-treatment of common illnesses. Social Science and Medicine. ISSN 0277-9536. 50(18), p. 1771–1883.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane; Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Levene, M; Mutemi, W; Beckerleg, S & Schulman, C (1999). Perceptions of soil eating and anaemia among pregnant Giriama women. Social Science and Medicine. ISSN 0277-9536. 48, p. 1069–1079.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane; Luoba, A; Adhiambo, P; NG'Uono, J & Geissler, Paul Wenzel (1999). Soil-eating is common among rural women in western Kenya. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. ISSN 0035-9203. 93, p. 515–516.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Prince, Ruth Jane; Mutemi, W; Lowe, B; Friis, H & Schulman, C (1998). Geophagy and anaemia among pregnant women on the Kenyan coast. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. ISSN 0035-9203. 5(1), p. 549–553.

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  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2019). Pandemic Publics: How Epidemics Transform Social and Political Collectives of Health, in "The Anthrpology of Epidemics", edited by by Ann H. Kelly, Frédéric Keck & Christos Lynteris. Routledge. ISBN 9781138616677. 182 p.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2018). Death, Detachment and Moral Dilemmas of Care in a Kenyan Hospital. . John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781119222293. 501 p.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane & Brown, Hannah (2016). Volunteer Economies: The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa. James Currey Publishers. ISBN 9781847011398. 280 p.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2016). Volunteer Economies: The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa. James Currey Publishers. ISBN 9781847011398. 280 p.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane & Marsland, Rebecca (2013). Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives. Ohio University Press. ISBN 978-0-8214-2058-4. 260 p.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane & Marsland, Rebecca (2013). Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives. Ohio University Press. ISBN 978-0821420584. 260 p.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Prince, Ruth Jane (2010). The Land is Dying. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-481-4. 423 p.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane & Geissler, P. Wenzel (2010). ‘The Land is Dying’: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-481-4. 444 p.

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  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Prince, Ruth Jane (2020). Frontline: Primary Health Care and COVID-19 in Kenya. Somatosphere: Science, Medicine and Anthropology.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Prince, Ruth Jane (2020). Corona, how are you? Africa Is A Country (Blog).
  • Prince, Ruth Jane & Geissler, Paul Wenzel (2020). Special issue editorial. Anthropology Today. ISSN 0268-540X. 36(6), p. 1–2. doi: 10.1111/1467-8322.12614.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2016). The Anthropology of Empire. In MacKenzie, John M. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Empire. John Wiley & Sons. ISSN 9781118455074. doi: doi.org/10.1002/9781118455074.wbeoe370.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane & Brown, Hannah (2016). The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa. In Prince, Ruth Jane (Eds.), Volunteer Economies: The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa.. James Currey Publishers. ISSN 9781847011398. p. 1–28. doi: 978-1-84701-139-8.
  • Lynteris, Christos & Prince, Ruth Jane (2016). Anthropology and Medical Photography: Ethnographic, Critical and Comparative Perspectives. Visual Anthropology. ISSN 0894-9468. 29(2), p. 101–117. doi: 10.1080/08949468.2016.1131104.

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