As study after study has pointed out, the health care systems in Africa pay little attention to
the critical interface between education and good health, especially when it comes to the …

In the growing number of publications in medical anthropology about sub-Saharan Africa,
there is a tendency to tell a single story of medicine, health, and health-seeking behavior …

Within the proliferation of studies identified with global mental health, anthropologists rarely
take global mental health itself as their object of inquiry. The papers in this special issue …

ABSTRACT This Special Issue expands mobilities research through the idea of therapeutic
mobilities, which consist of multiple movements of health-related things and beings …

The article sketches the origins and development of IVF in Ghana as a highly transnational
undertaking. Movements are from and to Africa, involving human beings (providers and …

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) created a renewed commitment to improve
maternal health in low-income countries. The estimated number of women worldwide dying …

It was once not uncommon for histories of colonial science and medicine to draw on
postcolonial theory. Today one finds many fewer such histories, despite the growing …

Despite impressive global investment in reproductive health programs in West Africa,
maternal mortality remains unacceptably high and obstetric care is often inadequate. Fertility …

Affective Trajectories explores affective and emotional experiences as manifestations of
religion in the rapidly shifting conditions of postcolonial African urban spaces and the …

The interdisciplinary, politically contested field of Global Health has often been described as
a consequence of, and response to, an intensification of the mobilities of, and connectivities …