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OverviewNew perspectives on the changing epidemiology of sub-Saharan Africa. Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa offers new and critical perspectives on the causes and consequences of recent epidemiological changes in sub-Saharan Africa, with a special focus on the increasing incidence of “non-communicable” and chronic conditions. In this book, historians, social anthropologists, public health experts, and social epidemiologists present important insights into epidemiological change in Africa beyond theories of “transition.” The volume covers a broad thematic range, including the trajectory of maternal mortality in East Africa, the smoking epidemic, the history of sugar consumption in South Africa, the causality between infectious and non-communicable diseases in Ghana and Belize, the complex relationships between adult hypertension and pediatric HIV in Botswana, and stories of cancer patients and their families in Kenya. In all, the volume provides insights drawn from historical perspectives and from the African social and clinical experience that are of value to students and researchers in global health, medical anthropology, public health, and African studies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Megan Vaughan , Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo , Marissa MikaPublisher: UCL Press Imprint: UCL Press Weight: 0.900kg ISBN: 9781787357068ISBN 10: 1787357066 Pages: 378 Publication Date: 27 January 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of figures and tables List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Megan Vaughan and Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo Temporalities: Beyond transition 1. The epidemiologic transition turned upside down: Britain’s mortality history as an imaginative resource for Africa Simon Szreter 2. Contingent futures, continuous pasts: experts, activists and social and disease transitions (1950-80’s) Kavita Sivaramakrishnan 3. Maternal health, epidemiology and transition theory in Africa Shane Doyle 4. Pathologies of modernisation: epidemiological Imaginaries and the smoking epidemic in post-colonial Africa David Reubi 5. Sugar and diabetes in post-war South Africa Megan Vaughan Numbers and Categories 6. Validity of measures for chronic disease in African settings Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo 7. Estimating and monitoring the burden of non-communicable and chronic disease in Ghana Olutobi Sanuade Local biologies and knowledge systems: “New diseases” in context 8. The para-communicable: living between infectious and non-communicable conditions Amy Moran-Thomas 9. Translating societies: non-communicable disease and ‘the first 1000 days’ in South Africa Michelle Pentecost 10. In tandem: Breastfeeding knowledge and thinking from Southern Africa Catherine Burns 11. Narrowed passages, Increased pressures: Adult hypertension and paediatric HIV in Botswana Betsey Behr Brada 12. Malignant stories: The chronicity of cancer and the pursuit of care in Kenya Ruth J. Prince IndexReviewsAuthor InformationMegan Vaughan is Professor of African History and Health at UCL, having previously held posts in Cambridge, Oxford and the City University New York. She is a historian and anthropologist who has worked extensively on health, nutrition, agriculture and environment in east/central and southern Africa and on the history of colonial medicine and psychiatry. She currently heads a Wellcome Trust funded research programme in the history of chronic disease in sub-Saharan Africa. Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo is a social epidemiologist with an interest in social and contextual determinants of health and chronic disease in the Africa region. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Public Health at the University of Greenwich. Marissa Mika is a historian and ethnographer who works on issues where politics, science, technology, medicine intersect in contemporary Africa. She is completing a book on the history of cancer research in Uganda. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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