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Life at a Distance: Medicine and Nationalism in India’s Pan-African e-Network
Author:
Vincent Duclos
ISBN:
9789376549078
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
228 2 b/w halftones, 3 maps, and 2 diagrams
Size:
16 x 24 cm
Price:
INR
1495.00
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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.
About the Author
Vincent Duclos
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.
Editorial Reviews
“Vincent Duclos’ in-depth ethnography of PAN not only offers lessons for global e-health implementation, but also provides far reaching insights into India's ‘trade not aid’ approach to South-South capacity building.”
—Mark Nichter, University of Arizona
“
Life at a Distance
is a triumph of multi-sited ethnography. Toggling between sites in India and Africa with ease, Duclos presents the network from inside out as well as from the outside in.”
—Andrew McDowell, Tulane University
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