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Engaged Universals: Ethnographic explorations of ‘Universal Health Coverage’ and the public good in Africa

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Publications

Caring Cash: Free Money and the Ethics of Solidarity in Kenya

Author(s): Neumark, Tom
Published in: 2023, ISBN 9780745340142
Publisher: Pluto Press

Caring Cash (opens in new window)

Author(s): Tom Neumark
Published in: Issue 2024, 2024, ISBN 9780745340142
Publisher: Pluto Press
DOI: 10.2307/jj.168340

Promising careers? A critical analysis of a randomised control trial in community health worker recruitment in Zambia (opens in new window)

Author(s): Wintrup, James
Published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2022, ISSN 0277-9536
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114412

Ethics, policy, and politics: A reply to Ashraf et al. (opens in new window)

Author(s): Wintrup, James
Published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2022, ISSN 0277-9536
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114624

Beyond Failure: Bureaucratic Labour and the Will to Improve in Kenya’s Experiments with Universal Health Care (opens in new window)

Author(s): Prince, Ruth Jane
Published in: Social Anthropology, Issue 30,2, 2022, Page(s) 56-80, ISSN 0964-0282
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.3167/saas.2022.300205

Outsourcing sovereignty: global health partnerships and the state in Zambia. (opens in new window)

Author(s): Wintrup, James
Published in: Critical Public Health, 2021, ISSN 0958-1596
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2021.1945535

From Russia with love: Medical modernities, development dreams, and cold war legacies in Kenya, 1969 and 2015 (opens in new window)

Author(s): Prince, Ruth Jane
Published in: Africa, Issue 90 (1), 2020, Page(s) 51-76, ISSN 0001-9720
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1017/s0001972019001025

Trusting the Poor: Cash Grants and the Caring Bureaucrat in Kenya (opens in new window)

Author(s): Neumark, Tom
Published in: Anthropological Quarterly, Issue 93 (2), 2020, Page(s) 119–49, ISSN 0003-5491
Publisher: Institute for Ethnographic Research
DOI: 10.1353/anq.2020.0028

Digital health in East Africa: Innovation, experimentation and the market (opens in new window)

Author(s): Neumark, Tom, Prince, Ruth Jane
Published in: Global Policy, 2021, ISSN 1758-5880
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.12990

The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Sleeping Sickness, Onchocerciasis and Unintended Consequences in the Gold Coast and Ghana, 1930–60 — ADDENDUM (opens in new window)

Author(s): David Bannister
Published in: The Journal of African History, Issue 62, 2022, Page(s) 460-460, ISSN 0021-8537
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0021853721000542

Curious Utopias

Author(s): Prince, Ruth; Neumark, Tom
Published in: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, Issue 11, 2022, Page(s) 1-15, ISSN 0964-0282
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Striking health workers: Precarity and healthcare in neoliberal Kenya. Anthropology Today. (opens in new window)

Author(s): Ameso, Edwin Ambani
Published in: Anthropology Today, Issue 2022, 2022, ISSN 0268-540X
Publisher: Royal Anthropological Institute
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8322.12742

Speaking with vampires and angels: the ambivalent afterlives of Christian humanitarianism in rural Zambia. (opens in new window)

Author(s): Wintrup, James
Published in: History and Anthropology, Issue 31:2, 2020, Page(s) 217-235, ISSN 0014-1844
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2020.1711749

Digital diagnostics from Tanzania: Beyond mere technological fixing? (opens in new window)

Author(s): Neumark, Tom
Published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2023, ISSN 0277-9536
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115306

Who alone can ‘see’? Christian humanitarianism, aspect-perception, and political critique (opens in new window)

Author(s): Wintrup, James
Published in: Critique of Anthropology, Issue 2021, 2021, ISSN 0308-275X
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0308275x211021658

Leapfrogging the Grid: Off-Grid Solar, Self-Reliance and the Market in Tanzania. (opens in new window)

Author(s): Neumark, Tom
Published in: Social Anthropology, 2022, ISSN 0964-0282
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.3167/saas.2022.300209

Health for All? Pasts, presents and futures of aspirations for universal healthcare (opens in new window)

Author(s): Kehr, Janina, Muinde, Jacinta Victoria Syombua, Ruth Jane Prince
Published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2023, ISSN 0277-9536
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115660

Private health care, cancer, and the vulnerable middle class in Kenya (opens in new window)

Author(s): Ruth J. Prince
Published in: American Ethnologist, Issue 50, 2023, Page(s) 595-608, ISSN 0094-0496
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1111/amet.13219

Blurring ‘social justice’ with ‘market justice’ in recent experiments with healthcare and social protection in the Global South (opens in new window)

Author(s): Ruth Jane Prince
Published in: Global Social Policy, Issue 24, 2024, Page(s) 331-335, ISSN 1468-0181
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/14680181241261476

Whose public, whose goods? Generations of patients and visions of fairness in Ghanaian health (opens in new window)

Author(s): Bannister, David
Published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2023, ISSN 0277-9536
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115393

Transcending the Ethical Dilemma of Christian Humanitarianism: American Medical Missionaries at a Hospital in Rural Zambia. (opens in new window)

Author(s): Wintrup, James
Published in: Ethnos, 2019, Page(s) 1-24, ISSN 0014-1844
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2019.1696856

MedTech in Tanzania: Reflecting and making judgments

Author(s): Neumark, Tom
Published in: Medical Anthropology Theory, Issue 2024, 2024, ISSN 2405-691X
Publisher: Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology

Universal Health Coverage in the Global South: New models of healthcare and their implications for citizenship, solidarity and the public good.

Author(s): Prince, Ruth Jane
Published in: Michael, Issue 14(2) (2017), 2017, Page(s) 153- 172 ., ISSN 1893-9651
Publisher: https://www.michaeljournal.no/

‘The Sorcerer's Apprentice: sleeping sickness, onchocerciasis, and unintended consequences In Ghana, 1930–60’. (opens in new window)

Author(s): Bannister, David
Published in: Journal of African History, Issue 2021, 2021, Page(s) 1-29, ISSN 0021-8537
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0021853721000177

Curious Utopias: Dreaming Big Again in the Twenty-first Century? (opens in new window)

Author(s): Prince, Ruth Jane, Neumark, Tom
Published in: Social Anthropology, Issue 30.2, 2022, Page(s) 1-15, ISSN 0964-0282
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.3167/saas.2022.300202

Health by the people, again? The lost lessons of Alma-Ata in a community health worker programme in Zambia (opens in new window)

Author(s): Wintrup, James
Published in: Social Science & Medicine, Issue 115257, 2023, ISSN 0277-9536
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115257

A new universalism? Universal health coverage and debates about rights, solidarity and inequality in Kenya (opens in new window)

Author(s): Muinde, Jacinta Victoria Syombua, Prince, Ruth Jane
Published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2022, ISSN 0277-9536
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115258

Hypeful worlds (opens in new window)

Author(s): Tom Neumark
Published in: American Ethnologist, Issue 2024, 2024, Page(s) 1-13, ISSN 0094-0496
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1111/amet.13351

Layers of epidemy: Present pasts during the first weeks of COVID‐19 in western Kenya. (opens in new window)

Author(s): Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Prince, Ruth Jane
Published in: Centaurus, Issue 62 (2), 2020, Page(s) 248-256, ISSN 0008-8994
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1600-0498.12295

Wilful Blindness: Sleeping Sickness and Onchocerciasis in Colonial Northern Ghana, 1909–1957 (opens in new window)

Author(s): David Bannister
Published in: Social History of Medicine, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 0951-631X
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkab119

Social medicine beyond colonial rule: the Medical Field Units of Ghana, 1930-2000.

Author(s): Bannister, David
Published in: Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine, edited by Green, Jeremy, Lie, Anne Kveim & Anderson, Warwick, Issue 2025, 2025
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa:Social and historical perspectives (opens in new window)

Author(s): Ruth J. Prince
Published in: Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa:Social and historical perspectives, Issue 2021, 2020, ISBN 9781787357051
Publisher: UCL Press
DOI: 10.14324/111.9781787357044

“Inequality”

Author(s): Neumark, Tom
Published in: A Research Agenda for Economic Anthropology, edited by James G. Carrier., Issue 2019, 2019, ISBN 9781788116091
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Malignant stories: the chronicity of cancer and the pursuit of care in Kenya

Author(s): Prince, Ruth J.
Published in: Rethinking Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives, Issue 16, 2021, Page(s) 322-349
Publisher: UCL Press

Malignant stories: the chronicity of cancer and the pursuit of care in Kenya.

Author(s): Prince, Ruth J.
Published in: Rethinking Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives, edited by Megan Vaughan, Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo, and Marissa Mika., Issue 2021, 2021, ISBN 9781787357044
Publisher: UCL Press

Countering amnesia: the importance of history and anthropology in global health.

Author(s): Howard, Sarah; Bannister, David; Fonseca, Sebastian
Published in: The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health, 1st Edition, Issue 2024, 2024, ISBN 9781003284345
Publisher: Routledge

Inequality (opens in new window)

Author(s): Tom Neumark
Published in: A Research Agenda for Economic Anthropology, Issue 2019, 2024, Page(s) 40-55, ISBN 9781788116091
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
DOI: 10.4337/9781788116107.00008

Death, Detachment, and Moral Dilemmas of Care in a Kenyan Hospital (opens in new window)

Author(s): Ruth J. Prince
Published in: A Companion to the Anthropology of Death, Issue 2019, 2024, Page(s) 445-460
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/9781119222422.ch31

The politics of health systems strengthening (opens in new window)

Author(s): Katerini T. Storeng, Ruth J. Prince, Arima Mishra
Published in: Routledge Handbook on the Politics of Global Health, Issue 2021, 2021, Page(s) 114-121
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781315297255-11

Pandemic Publics: How Epidemics Transform Social and Political Collectives of Health (opens in new window)

Author(s): Prince, Ruth Jane
Published in: The Anthropology of Epidemics, Issue 2019, 2020, ISBN 9781138616677
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9780429461897

The Public Good, Planning and Internationalism in African Health Policy and Practice: from independence to the present day

Author(s): Bannister, David; Delanyo Dovlo, Gorsky, Martin; Gradmann, Christoph; Howard, Sarah; Marks, Sarah, Mkhwanazi, Nolwazi; Muinde, Jacinta Victoria, Prince, Ruth (eds.)
Published in: The Public Good, Planning and Internationalism in African Health Policy and Practice: from independence to the present day, Issue 2025, 2025, ISSN 1893-9651
Publisher: Michael

'The ‘Hustler’ Fund: Kenya’s Approach to National Transformation

Author(s): Muinde, Jacinta Victoria
Published in: African Arguments (online), Issue online, 2023
Publisher: African Arguments

Corona, how are you?

Author(s): Geissler, P. Wenzel & Prince, Ruth J.
Published in: Africa-Is-A-Country, Issue May 1st, 2020, 2020
Publisher: online

Simukai Chigudu, The Political Life of an Epidemic: Cholera, crisis and citizenship in Zimbabwe (opens in new window)

Author(s): Muinde, Jacinta Victoria
Published in: Africa, Issue 92(3), 2022, Page(s) 386-387, ISSN 1750-0184
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0001972022000146

The primacy of politics in neoliberal universal health coverage policy reform. A commentary on ‘financing and provision of healthcare for two billion people in low-income nations: Is the cooperative healthcare model a solution?” by William C Hsiao and Winnie Yip. (opens in new window)

Author(s): Mladovsky, P. Prince, R.J., Hane, F. And V. Ridde
Published in: Social Science & Medicine, Issue 2023, 2023
Publisher: Social Science & Medicine
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115742

Frontline: Primary Health Care and COVID-19 in Kenya

Author(s): Prince, Ruth Jane & Geissler. P. Wenzel
Published in: Somatosphere: Science, Medicine and Anthropology, Issue April 5, 2020, 2020
Publisher: online

Utopian aspirations in a dystopian world: “Health for all” and the Universal Health Coverage agenda – an Introduction

Author(s): Ruth J. Prince
Published in: Somatosphere, Issue Online journal, 2020
Publisher: online publication

A Politics of numbers? Digital registration in Kenya’s experiments with universal health coverage

Author(s): Ruth J. Prince
Published in: Somatosphere, Issue 01/04/2020, 2020
Publisher: Online Journal (not printed) (University of Chicago)

The hype and hope of data for healthcare in Africa

Author(s): Neumark, Tom
Published in: Somatosphere, 2020
Publisher: Online Journal (University of Chicago)

Health Insurance for the poor: insights from the Kenyan coast

Author(s): Muinde, Victoria Jacinta
Published in: Somatosphere, 2020
Publisher: Online Journal (not printed) (University of Chicago)

Futures and the past in Ghana’s Universal Health Coverage infrastructure

Author(s): Bannister, David
Published in: Somatosphere, Issue 01/04/2020, 2020
Publisher: Online Journal (not printed) (University of Chicago)

Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Zambia: state accountability and universality in a new community health worker programme

Author(s): Wintrup, James
Published in: Somatosphere, 2020
Publisher: Online Journal (not printed) (University of Chicago)

Medical volunteers in rural Zambia: learning from attitudes to angels and vampires

Author(s): Wintrup, James
Published in: The Conversation, Issue 2021, 2021
Publisher: The Conversation

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