Life at a Distance
eBook - ePub

Life at a Distance

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

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Life at a Distance

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

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1. A Shining Example
  9. Chapter 2. Medicine from the Air
  10. Chapter 3. The Archipelago of Care
  11. Chapter 4. The Empire of Speculation
  12. Chapter 5. Maps and Territories
  13. Epilogue
  14. Notes
  15. References
  16. Index
  17. Copyright