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.
David Bannister. 'Social Medicine beyond Colonial Rule, 1930-2015'. Chapter in Greene J., Kveim Lie A. and Anderson W. (eds), Global Histories of Social Medicine. Cambridge University Press (Accepted, forthcoming)
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Tom Neumark. 2023. Caring Cash: Free Money and the Ethics of Solidarity in Kenya. Pluto Press (Anthropology, Culture and Society series). Now available for free on Open Access.
Special Issue on "Curious Utopias", published in Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, June 2022
Special Issue in Social Science and Medicine, on "Health for all? Pasts, Presents and Futures of Universal Health Care", 2022 (see below) online first, published in print in February 2023
Bannister, David (2022). 'Wilful Blindness: Sleeping Sickness and Onchocerciasis in Colonial Northern Ghana, 1909–1957', Social History of Medicine 35: 2, 635-660, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/ hkab119
2020 Publications
Health for all? - Online article series on Somatosphere
'Health for all? Critical perspectives on Universal Health Coverage' is a special issue of the online health humanities publication Somatosphere. The issue was edited by project leader Ruth J. Prince, and contributed to by all members of the project team, with additional contributors.
Victoria Jacinta Muinde, on health insurance for the poor in Kenya: Muinde, Victoria Jacinta. 2020. Health Insurance for the poor: insights from the Kenyan coast. Somatosphere (April 2020): http://somatosphere.net/2020/health-insurance-poor-kenya.html/
Jamie Wintrup´s essay on the state and scaling up primary health care in Zambia: Wintrup, James. 2020. Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Zambia: state accountability and universality in a new community health worker programme" . Somatosphere (April2020): http://somatosphere.net/2020/universal-health-coverage-zambia.html/
2020 publications
Neumark, Tom (2020): Trusting the poor: Cash grants and the caring bureaucrat in a Kenyan slum. Anthropological Quarterly. 93 (2): 119–49.
Wintrup, Jamie (2020) Speaking with vampires and angels: the ambivalent afterlives of Christian humanitarianism in rural Zambia. History and Anthropology 31 (2): 217-235 https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2020.1711749
Bannister, David (2020). 'Futures and the past in Ghana’s Universal Health Coverage infrastructure'. Somatosphere (April 2020). Link here.
Prince, Ruth J. (2020, in press, open access). "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.
Geissler, PW. & Prince, Ruth J. (2020). Layers of epidemy: Present pasts during the first weeks of COVID‐19 in western Kenya. Centaurus. 2020; 62: 248– 256. https://doi.org/10.1111/1600-0498.12295
Neumark, Tom (2019): Inequality. In Research agenda in economic anthropology, ed. James Carrier. Edward Elgar.
Wintrup, James (2019) Transcending the ethical dilemma of Christian humanitarianism: American medical missionaries at a hospital in rural Zambia. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2019.1696856
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)
Neumark, Thomas (2017): ‘A good neighbour is not one that gives’: Detachment, ethics and the relational self in Kenya. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 23 (4) 748–764.
Prince, Ruth J & Rebecca Marsland (eds.) (2013) Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa. Ethnographic Perspectives. Athens: Ohio University Press
Bannister, David. Upcoming: March 2021. ‘Into the hitherto untouched periphery’: Planning, Primary Health Care and changing idioms of health governance in Ghana, 1957-1996’. Presentation at the European Conference on Social Sciences and History, Leiden, Netherlands, as part of the panel ‘‘Primary Health Care’ in Post-War Global Health: Making and Meaning’.
Bannister, David. Upcoming: January 2021. Presentation at the University of Oslo African Anthropology Seminar. Paper title: Where the present begins: Guinea Worm disease and the regionalisation of inequity in Ghana, 1900-2015
Neumark, Tom, 3rd December 2020, ‘Living in hype: Tanzanian technologists in an era of techno-optimism’ paper to be presented at African Studies Seminar. Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo
Neumark, Tom, 11th December 2020, ‘Leapfrogging with data: time, machines and healthcare in Tanzania’, paper to be presented at the conference, Data as a Relation, University of Copenhagen
Neumark, Tom, 6th-7th September 2019, 'Leapfrogging all the way to utopia’ paper presented at the workshop 'Curious Utopias: large and small blueprints for human society', University of Oslo.
Bannister, David. September 2019. ‘Absent Utopias in Ghanaian healthcare: Independence, Alma Ata, and the Information Age, 1957-2019’. Presentation at the workshop “Curious Utopias: Large and Small Blueprints for Human Society”, University of Oslo.
Bannister, David. July 2019. ‘Colonial tsetse control and post-independence onchocerciasis in Ghana’. Presentation at the triennial Ghana Studies Association Conference, University of Ghana Legon, Accra.
Bannister, David. 11-14 June 2019. Co-convened panel and presentation at ECAS (European Conference on African Studies), University of Edinburgh. Panel title: “Remembering Alma Ata? Revisiting 'health for all' amid aspirations for universal health coverage in Africa”. Paper title: ‘Care, Adjustment, Coverage: Oral History and the Diffusion of Global Health Policy in Ghana, 1945-2019’
Bannister, David. April 2019. ‘The periphery’s periphery: northern Ghana in the past and present of global health, 1900-2015’. Presentation at Sites of Health, a Symposium on the Medical Humanities, Shanghai, organized by University of Strathclyde, University of Shanghai, and the Wellcome Trust.
Bannister, David. March 2019. ‘History, policy, and the road to Universal Health Coverage in Ghana, 1930-2015’. Presentation to SUM ‘Global Health Unpacked’ Seminar Series, University of Oslo.
Presentations
Wintrup, James, 2019: University of Oslo, Norway, 6th-7th September Curious Utopias: large and small blueprints for human society. Paper: Achieving universal health coverage in rural Zambia: state accountability and universality in a community health worker programme
Wintrup, James, 2019: University of Oslo, Norway, 27th March Anthropology of Africa Seminar, Department of Social Anthropology Paper: Who alone can see? Christian humanitarianism, aspect-showing and political critique
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'Health for all? Critical perspectives on Universal Health Coverage' is a special issue of the online health humanities publication Somatosphere. The issue was edited by project leader Ruth J. Prince, and contributed to by all members of the project team, with additional contributors.