Life at a Distance

Medicine and Nationalism in India's Pan-African E-Network

Vincent Duclos (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

228 Seiten

2025
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
9781501782060 (ISBN)

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In Life at a Distance, Vincent Duclos recounts the story of the Pan-African e-Network. Branded as "India's gift to the world," and as a "shining example of South-South cooperation," the Pan-African e-Network was an exceptionally ambitious project. Between 2009 and 2017 the network used satellite technology to connect hospitals across Africa with hospitals in India, providing medical education and delivering health care for patients at a distance. Duclos shows how, by accelerating the flow of expertise across continents, the network also created connected enclaves, at once commercial, infrastructural, and medical. Life at a Distance is the story of a project that, Duclos suggests, acted as a medium for speculation about the future—about medical markets, the nation, South-South relations, and a new world order beyond Western-centric scripts.

Vincent Duclos is Associate Professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal. His ethnographic research focuses on global capitalism, digital technology, and medicine, and the many ways they are entangled.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.05.2025
Reihe/Serie	Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
Zusatzinfo	2 b&w halftones, 3 maps, 2 diagrams - 3 Maps - 2 Halftones, black and white - 2 Diagrams
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781501782060 / 9781501782060
Zustand	Neuware