Filtering Inequality: Screening and Knowledge in Senegal's Topography of Hepatitis B Care.

Only a fraction of the estimated tenth or so of Senegalese who are chronically infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV) have been diagnosed. Of these, few have been assessed for their risk of progressing to potentially fatal liver disease (indicating need for treatment), and fewer still are taking antiviral drugs. A massive gap between those needing and getting treatment is widely acknowledged among experts.

International Health Research and the Emergence of Global Health in the Late Twentieth Century.

An influential policy network emerged from two overlapping developments of the 1970s and 1980s: new research programs focusing on tropical diseases and debates about how to implement the concept of primary health care at the World Health Organization. Participating actors came together in an informal network that, by the late 1980s, expanded advocacy to include the promotion and reorganization of all forms of research that might improve health in the Global South. This goal became associated with a search for new research methods for determining priorities, a quest that reached a peak in the early 1990s when the World Bank entered the picture.

PHARMACY, MONEY AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN DAKAR.

Pharmacy students at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar must research and write a thesis to graduate. who took topics in analytical chemistry and toxicology describe their thesis work as a temporary opportunity to perform 'street-level' public health research that they regard as 'relevant' to the quality of people's lives. Expecting futures in the private commercial sector, regretfully leave the thesis behind.

INTRODUCTION: SUSTAINING THE LIFE OF THE POLIS.

How are publics of protection and care defined in African cities today? The effects of globalization and neo-liberal policies on urban space are well documented. From London to São Paulo, denationalization, privatization, offshoring and cuts in state expenditure are creating enclaves and exclusions, resulting in fragmented, stratified social geographies (see Caldeira 2000; Ong 2006; Harvey 2006; Murray 2011). 'Networked archipelagoes', islands connected by transnational circulations of capital, displace other spatial relations and imaginaries.

The rise and fall of the dolorimeter: pain, analgesics, and the management of subjectivity in mid-twentieth-century United States.

This article describes how two experimental technologies, the Hardy-Wolff-Goodell dolorimeter and the clinical trial, were involved in, and transformed by, American analgesic research. Introduced in 1940, the dolorimeter quickly became popular as an analgesic-testing technology. By the early 1950s, however, the main sources of funding for analgesic evaluation had shifted to Henry K.