Writings

 

Publications

“‘The Malaria Imbroglio:’ Ethics, Eradication, and Endings in Pare Taveta, East Africa, 1959-1960” for International Journal of African Historical Studies. Special Issue on the History of Medicine in East Africa. Forthcoming.


“Incorporating Medical Research Into the History of Medicine in East Africa,” for International Journal of African Historical Studies. Special Issue on the History of Medicine in East Africa. Forthcoming.


“Good Food, Ridiculous Diets and a Well Fed Swahili: Food and Diet in Colonial Zanzibari Institutions,” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. Accepted with revisions.


“Chappati Complaints and Biriani Cravings: The Aesthetics of Food in Colonial Zanzibari Institutions,” Journal of Eastern African Studies, May 2011: 313-328. Abstract


“Fines, Orders, Fear... and Consent? Medical Research in East Africa, c. 1950s.” Journal of Developing World Bioethics, April 2010: 34-41. Abstract


Publications in progress

Book Manuscript. The Experiment Must Continue: Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940-2014. Under Review at Ohio University Press.


“Economies of Blood in East Africa: from Mumiani to Transfusions, 1880s-Present,” Under Review.


“Forgetting Scientific Failures: The Kenya DIBD and Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination Attempts, 1946-1956,” (co-authored with Hannah Carr). Invited as part of a special issue in Canadian Journal of African Studies. Guest editor, Wenzel Geissler.


“Questioning the Adoption of ‘Traditional’ African Practices for Modern Medical Research,” In Preparation for American Journal of Public Health, “Voices from the Past” section.


Book Reviews

Maria Grosz-Ngate, John H. Hanson, Patrick O’Meara. Africa: Fourth Edition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014; in Journal of African History, Forthcoming.


Johanna Tayloe Crane. Scrambling for Africa: AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013; in African Affairs, Forthcoming. Review


Hansjorg Dilger, Aboulaye Kane and Stacey Langwick, eds., Medicine, Mobility and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing; Tamara Giles-Vernick and James Webb, eds., Global Health in Africa: Historical Perspectives on Disease Control; Paul Wenzel Geissler and Catherine Molyneux, eds., Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: the Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa; in African Studies Review, Forthcoming.


Helen Tilley. Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011; in International Journal of African Historical Studies, 2010. Review


Hansjorg Dilger and Ute Luig, eds. Morality, Hope and Grief: Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010; in H-Net Reviews, September 2011. Review


Paul Wenzel Geissler and Ruth Jane Prince. The Land is Dying: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010; in African Studies Quarterly, Winter 2011. Review


Andrew Rodlach. Witches, Westerners, and HIV: AIDS & Cultures of Blame in Africa. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press, 2006; in H-Net Reviews, April 2008. Review


John Iliffe. The African Aids Epidemic: A History. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006; in International Journal of African Historical Studies, September 2007. Review


Tracy J. Luedke and Harry G. West, eds. Borders and Healers: Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006; in International Journal of African Historical Studies, January 2007. Review


CurriculA

“Exploring Disease in Africa: A Curriculum for Advanced High School Students.” Curriculum


syllabi

AFR 199. Freshman Seminar on Health and Disease in Africa. University of Oregon.


AFR 410/510. “Global Disease Eradication: Past and Present.” University of Oregon. Syllabus


ANTH 162. “Introduction to Medical Anthropology.” University of Oregon (co-taught with Dr. Heather McClure.) Syllabus


HIST 232, Clark Honors College. “Disease, Public Health, and the Making of the Modern World.” University of Oregon. Syllabus


HIST 419. “History of East Africa.” University of Oregon. Syllabus


INTL 410/510. “Health and Development in Africa.” University of Oregon. Syllabus


CaTALOGS

Catalog to historical materials housed at Amani Station, Tanzania. National Institute of Medical Research. October 2008. Catalog


Other

“Learning From the Past: The Future of Malaria in Africa.” Issues in Brief, (Boston: Boston University Pardee Center), 2008. Article