Abena Dove Osseo-Asare
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 208703 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Abena Dove Osseo-Asare |
| NOMBRES | Abena Dove |
| APELLIDO | Osseo-Asare |
| FIRMA | OSSEO-ASARE A D |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1889-5239 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Safe Sex and the Debate over Condoms on Campus in the 1980s
During the 1980s, college students in the United States helped to destigmatize the distribution and use of condoms. They shifted their aims from preventing unwanted pregnancy to stopping the spread of sexually transmitted infections including the newly identified acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Two student-led initiatives to deliver condoms after hours at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the University of Texas at Aus…
Making masks
In 2020, Ghanaians adopted face masks, or “nose masks,” in public places to combat the spread of a novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. Seamstresses and tailors quickly pivoted to manufacture nose masks by April, given the longstanding cottage sewing industry. While the country saw an influx of disposable face masks by the end of the year, cloth mask makers made a significant impact on public health at the start of the pandemic. This article considers …
Don't use herbs in labor
Atomic Doctors
Reviewed by: Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age by James L. Nolan Jr Abena Dove Osseo-Asare (bio) Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age By James L. Nolan Jr. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 294. In this gripping book, James L. Nolan Jr. narrates the involvement of his grandfather James F. Nolan (hereafter Nolan) in the creation of the firs…
Kwame Nkrumah’s Suits
This paper examines the wardrobe of the first prime minister and president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, to show how he created a set of “suits” or “looks” to mirror his overlapping traditional, modern, pan-African, Ghanaian, and Socialist political identities. It expands research on dandy culture to indicate how an African sensibility, mixed with inspiration from Asia, provided a wider repertoire of looks for postcolonial dressers beyond strictly Wes…
Atomic Junction
After Atomic Junction, along the Haatso-Atomic Road there lies the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, home to Africa's first nuclear programme after independence. Travelling along this road, Abena Dove Osseo-Asare gathers together stories of conflict and compromise on an African nuclear frontier. She speaks with a generation of African scientists who became captivated with 'the atom' and studied in the Soviet Union to make nuclear physics their own.…
Comment on “Eating Kola”
In 1995 Edmund Abaka was alarmed to learn that both the United States Food and Drug Administration and the Saudi government had flagged kola nuts as a potentially psychoactive drug worth regulating. At that time, Abaka was in the process of researching kola in Ghana for his dissertation at York
Julie Laplante, Healing Roots
In Delft, outside Cape Town, the South African Medical Research Council built a new pharmaceutical development facility, with state of the art laboratories and test gardens. Across the highway, a cramped township is home to black families financially disenfranchised in post-apartheid South Africa. In both spaces, people cultivate and use Artemesia afra , an African daisy. In Healing Roots , anthropologist Julie Laplante travels between laboratori…
John Rankin. Healing the African Body
In his methodical investigation of medical care in the British colony of Sierra Leone in West Africa from 1800 to 1860, John Rankin emphasizes the limits of both colonialism and biomedicine in the period. While a host of studies now stress the coercive and extensive reach of British medical practitioners in colonial settings, Rankin is the first to do a sweeping analysis of this earlier moment when the British hold on West Africa was much more te…
Writing Medical Authority
For generations, healers sustained medical knowledge in African communities through oral communication. During the twentieth century, healers who learned to read and write used literacy as a vehicle for establishing medical authority. In particular, literate healers lobbied colonial and national governments for recognition, wrote medical guidebooks, advertised in African newspapers, and sent letters to other healers to organise their profession. …
Atomic lands
The presence of a low-power 30 kW nuclear reactor at the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) in Kwabenya, a suburb of Ghana's capital city Accra, has exacerbated longstanding disputes over access to land there. The reactor complex has a five km radius of empty land as a buffer zone, but neighbouring residents have reclaimed what they perceive to be fallow land. An estimated 30 percent of the 2,000 acres of GAEC land has been lost to squatters a…
Scientific Equity
During the 1960s the Ministry of Education in Ghana created a network of school laboratories to increase scientific literacy among young citizens. The ministry stocked these "Science Centres" with imported beakers, Bunsen burners, and books. Education officials and university scientists worked with teachers to create lesson plans on water, air, plants, and other topics. The government hoped that scientifically minded schoolchildren would be bette…
Bioprospecting and Resistance
Journal Article Bioprospecting and Resistance: Transforming Poisoned Arrows into Strophantin Pills in Colonial Gold Coast, 1885–1922 Get access Abena Dove Osseo-Asare Abena Dove Osseo-Asare * *Department of History, 3229 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley CA 94720–2550, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 21, Issue 2, August 2008, Pages 269–290, ht…
The African Aids Epidemic
In Kinshasa during the mid-1970s, the Congolese physician Kapita Bila noticed a troubling increase in patients consumed by bouts of diarrhoea and persistent tumours. By 1983, Bila's records, alongside those of his colleagues and the blood samples of their patients, linked these signs of an emerging epidemic in equatorial Africa with the newly defined human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the disease it caused: acquired immune deficiency syndrome…
The African Aids Epidemic
In Kinshasa during the mid-1970s, the Congolese physician Kapita Bila noticed a troubling increase in patients consumed by bouts of diarrhoea and persistent tumours. By 1983, Bila's records, alongside those of his colleagues and the blood samples of their patients, linked these signs of an emerging epidemic in equatorial Africa with the newly defined human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the disease it caused: acquired immune deficiency syndrome…
Bioprospecting and Resistance
Journal Article Bioprospecting and Resistance: Transforming Poisoned Arrows into Strophantin Pills in Colonial Gold Coast, 1885–1922 Get access Abena Dove Osseo-Asare Abena Dove Osseo-Asare * *Department of History, 3229 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley CA 94720–2550, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 21, Issue 2, August 2008, Pages 269–290, ht…
Writing Medical Authority
For generations, healers sustained medical knowledge in African communities through oral communication. During the twentieth century, healers who learned to read and write used literacy as a vehicle for establishing medical authority. In particular, literate healers lobbied colonial and national governments for recognition, wrote medical guidebooks, advertised in African newspapers, and sent letters to other healers to organise their profession. …
Scientific Equity
During the 1960s the Ministry of Education in Ghana created a network of school laboratories to increase scientific literacy among young citizens. The ministry stocked these "Science Centres" with imported beakers, Bunsen burners, and books. Education officials and university scientists worked with teachers to create lesson plans on water, air, plants, and other topics. The government hoped that scientifically minded schoolchildren would be bette…
Kwame Nkrumah’s Suits
This paper examines the wardrobe of the first prime minister and president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, to show how he created a set of “suits” or “looks” to mirror his overlapping traditional, modern, pan-African, Ghanaian, and Socialist political identities. It expands research on dandy culture to indicate how an African sensibility, mixed with inspiration from Asia, provided a wider repertoire of looks for postcolonial dressers beyond strictly Wes…
Don't use herbs in labor
The African Aids Epidemic
In Kinshasa during the mid-1970s, the Congolese physician Kapita Bila noticed a troubling increase in patients consumed by bouts of diarrhoea and persistent tumours. By 1983, Bila's records, alongside those of his colleagues and the blood samples of their patients, linked these signs of an emerging epidemic in equatorial Africa with the newly defined human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the disease it caused: acquired immune deficiency syndrome…
Bioprospecting and Resistance
Journal Article Bioprospecting and Resistance: Transforming Poisoned Arrows into Strophantin Pills in Colonial Gold Coast, 1885–1922 Get access Abena Dove Osseo-Asare Abena Dove Osseo-Asare * *Department of History, 3229 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley CA 94720–2550, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 21, Issue 2, August 2008, Pages 269–290, ht…
Scientific Equity
During the 1960s the Ministry of Education in Ghana created a network of school laboratories to increase scientific literacy among young citizens. The ministry stocked these "Science Centres" with imported beakers, Bunsen burners, and books. Education officials and university scientists worked with teachers to create lesson plans on water, air, plants, and other topics. The government hoped that scientifically minded schoolchildren would be bette…
Julie Laplante, Healing Roots
In Delft, outside Cape Town, the South African Medical Research Council built a new pharmaceutical development facility, with state of the art laboratories and test gardens. Across the highway, a cramped township is home to black families financially disenfranchised in post-apartheid South Africa. In both spaces, people cultivate and use Artemesia afra , an African daisy. In Healing Roots , anthropologist Julie Laplante travels between laboratori…
John Rankin. Healing the African Body
In his methodical investigation of medical care in the British colony of Sierra Leone in West Africa from 1800 to 1860, John Rankin emphasizes the limits of both colonialism and biomedicine in the period. While a host of studies now stress the coercive and extensive reach of British medical practitioners in colonial settings, Rankin is the first to do a sweeping analysis of this earlier moment when the British hold on West Africa was much more te…
Writing Medical Authority
For generations, healers sustained medical knowledge in African communities through oral communication. During the twentieth century, healers who learned to read and write used literacy as a vehicle for establishing medical authority. In particular, literate healers lobbied colonial and national governments for recognition, wrote medical guidebooks, advertised in African newspapers, and sent letters to other healers to organise their profession. …
Atomic lands
The presence of a low-power 30 kW nuclear reactor at the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) in Kwabenya, a suburb of Ghana's capital city Accra, has exacerbated longstanding disputes over access to land there. The reactor complex has a five km radius of empty land as a buffer zone, but neighbouring residents have reclaimed what they perceive to be fallow land. An estimated 30 percent of the 2,000 acres of GAEC land has been lost to squatters a…
Comment on “Eating Kola”
In 1995 Edmund Abaka was alarmed to learn that both the United States Food and Drug Administration and the Saudi government had flagged kola nuts as a potentially psychoactive drug worth regulating. At that time, Abaka was in the process of researching kola in Ghana for his dissertation at York
Atomic Junction
After Atomic Junction, along the Haatso-Atomic Road there lies the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, home to Africa's first nuclear programme after independence. Travelling along this road, Abena Dove Osseo-Asare gathers together stories of conflict and compromise on an African nuclear frontier. She speaks with a generation of African scientists who became captivated with 'the atom' and studied in the Soviet Union to make nuclear physics their own.…
Kwame Nkrumah’s Suits
This paper examines the wardrobe of the first prime minister and president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, to show how he created a set of “suits” or “looks” to mirror his overlapping traditional, modern, pan-African, Ghanaian, and Socialist political identities. It expands research on dandy culture to indicate how an African sensibility, mixed with inspiration from Asia, provided a wider repertoire of looks for postcolonial dressers beyond strictly Wes…
Making masks
In 2020, Ghanaians adopted face masks, or “nose masks,” in public places to combat the spread of a novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. Seamstresses and tailors quickly pivoted to manufacture nose masks by April, given the longstanding cottage sewing industry. While the country saw an influx of disposable face masks by the end of the year, cloth mask makers made a significant impact on public health at the start of the pandemic. This article considers …
Don't use herbs in labor
Atomic Doctors
Reviewed by: Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age by James L. Nolan Jr Abena Dove Osseo-Asare (bio) Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age By James L. Nolan Jr. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 294. In this gripping book, James L. Nolan Jr. narrates the involvement of his grandfather James F. Nolan (hereafter Nolan) in the creation of the firs…
Safe Sex and the Debate over Condoms on Campus in the 1980s
During the 1980s, college students in the United States helped to destigmatize the distribution and use of condoms. They shifted their aims from preventing unwanted pregnancy to stopping the spread of sexually transmitted infections including the newly identified acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Two student-led initiatives to deliver condoms after hours at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the University of Texas at Aus…
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