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accountability, 11–12, 76, 78, 172–73 actants, 21, 204 actors, 6, 21, 25, 35, 67, 78, 99, 119, 145, 172, 175, 181, 191, 198, 204–205, 207, 227, 229, 249n20; biomedical, 122, 124, 129, 135, 137, 143, 168, 210; nonhuman, 5, 20–21, 78, 93–96, 98, 102–11, 113, 116, 118–19, 129, 136, 157–58, 202, 204–205, 214, 236, 250n28, 263n8. See also majini (nonhuman spirits); mashetani (devils or demons) acupuncture, 75, 261n56 Adams, Vincanne, 262n1 agency, 21, 106, 118, 126, 153, 264n17 AIDS. See HIV/AIDS amulets, 52, 90, 92, 93, 97, 102, 159, 163–65, 190, 224 ancestors, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 17, 23, 24, 41, 95, 108, 109, 110, 119, 157, 159, 163, 207, 237, 238, 263n8, 271n4. See also mahoka (ancestral shade) anthropology, 8, 16, 20, 27, 34, 173, 181, 201, 234–36, 240, 262n3, 269n5; medical , 22, 248n6, 249n21, 251n30 Arabic language, 89–93, 98, 109, 162, 165 Athusser, Louis, 126 Awadhi, Shehe, 91–92, 112, 264n10 Barthes, Roland, 201–203 biomedicine, 2, 6–11, 16–18, 21–22, 24, 31, 34–35, 60–61, 67–68, 71–72, 74–75, 80, 82, 88, 90, 97, 121–23, 125–26, 128–34, 137, 139, 141, 145–47, 151–54, 159, 161, 166, 170, 172–73, 175, 177–81, 188, 191, 200, 202–205, 207–10, 212–13, 219–21, 223–24, 226–27, 230–31, 232–35, 238–39, 249nn17,21, 251n30, 262n3, Index 263n6, 268n18, 269n5. See also actors, biomedical; body, biomedical; diagnoses , biomedical; disease, biomedical; health care, biomedical; hegemony, biomedical; practitioners, biomedical; therapy, biomedical birth attendants, traditional (TBAs), 16, 32–33, 88–89, 103, 121–47, 233, 260n45, 271n3; National Traditional and Birth Attendants Implementation Policy Guide­ lines, 74; training of, 24, 121–46, 146, 230, 233, 265n1, 266n10. See also midwives Bloor, David, 34 body: biological, 10, 131, 134, 159; biomedical , 24, 159, 204; boundedness of, 189–91, 203, 224; corporeality, 210, 224–25, 228; physical, 11–12, 18, 22–25, 107, 132–33, 146, 152–53, 161, 165, 170–72, 177, 181, 189, 198, 200– 201, 203, 205, 207, 210, 219, 223–26, 228–30, 235, 251n30, 253n11, 264n17, 271n4. See also enactment, of body; healers, physical body of; materiality, bodily breast milk, 35, 100, 107, 133–34,163, 207, 212, 220–21, 224, 228–30 Butler, Judith, 207 Callon, Michel, 21 cancer, 12, 16, 251n30 capital, 235; capitalism, 7, 58 causality, 201–202, 269n5 Chanock, Martin, 44, 47 Chenga, Fatu, 94–97, 106, 108, 112, 115, 155, 264n13 Chiduo, Aaron, 66, 68 Index 292 childbirth, 29, 97, 126, 129–36, 139–42, 145–47, 160, 225, 230, 244, 249n17, 266nn10,16, 271n3; at home, 83, 121–25, 127, 130, 140, 143, 225; in clinics, 127–29, 132, 139–40, 143–44, 225. See also birth attendants, traditional (TBAs); midwives China, 13, 59–61, 72–79, 232, 238, 251n30, 257nn2,3,4,5, 261nn58,62; traditional Chinese medicine, 60–62, 76, 79, 83, 249n21, 257nn3,5, 261n61, 263n6 Chinduli, 91, 92–93, 101, 112, 117, 162–66, 268n12 chiropractic, 75, 261n56 Christianity, 3, 4, 12, 16, 20, 47, 118, 154, 160, 188, 236, 242, 248n13, 250n28, 253n11, 254n14, 256n38, 263n6, 267n7 Ciekawy, Diane, 253n3 Cold War, 9, 59, 75–77 colonial period, 2, 9, 13, 15–16, 19, 24, 27, 32–33, 39–40, 58–59, 62, 76, 82, 90, 123, 154, 223, 232–33, 235, 237, 242, 248n11, 252n38, 253nn2,3,7, 254nn13,16,24, 259n31, 262n3, 265n22; British, 28, 43, 46–57, 249n17, 255n26; German, 28, 42–43, 46, 251n34, 253n6; postcolonial period, 7, 9–10, 13, 15–19, 27, 33, 56, 58–59, 68, 76, 81–82, 90, 173, 230, 232–33, 235–38, 248n14, 249n21, 253n3, 255n26, 256n34, 258n15; precolonial period, 41–42, 233. See also governance, colonial; healing, postcolonial Comaroff, Jean, 249n17 Commission for Science and Technology, 70, 260n43 commoditization, 10, 58, 75–78, 262n63 Commonwealth Science Council, 65 contraception, 136 courts, judicial, 40, 51–52, 56–57, 254n24 Cussins, Charis, 170 Dadi, Fatma (aka Binti Dadi), 1–2, 4–6, 7, 19–20, 24–25, 28, 32–34, 84, 94, 96–102, 106, 107, 110–16, 118, 120, 157, 160–65, 179, 182–91, 204, 206, 207, 210, 212–23, 225–29, 236, 240–44, 247nn1,2 (prologue), 264n15, 265n20, 268n14, 269nn8,10 Dar es Salaam, 2, 26, 27, 29, 37, 61, 62, 64–66, 77, 83–84, 85, 88, 92, 95, 120, 223, 240–41, 243, 250n27, 252n36, 253n8...

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