Noémi Tousignant
Biographic Data
| ID | 72800 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noémi Tousignant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noémi |
| FAMILY NAME | Tousignant |
| SIGNATURE | TOUSIGNANT N |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1341-060X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Politics of Scheduling
Vaccination schedules negotiate the timing of interactions among bodies, vaccines, and pathogens. Yet they do more: they orchestrate the movement of vaccines through factories, business plans, injecting devices, fridges, vehicles, healthcare labour, kinship relations, policy models, government budgets, and so on. This article approaches vaccine schedules as standards that synchronise the varying entities – and interests animating these – that mak…
Somparé Abdoulaye Wotem, 2020, L’énigme d’Ebola en Guinée. Une étude socio‐anthropologique des réticences. Paris, L’Harmattan, coll. « Études africaines », série « Santé », 272 p., bibliogr.
Somparé Abdoulaye Wotem, 2020, L’énigme d’Ebola en Guinée. Une étude socio‐anthropologique des réticences. Paris, L’Harmattan, coll. « Études africaines », série « Santé », 272 p., bibliogr.. Un article de la revue Anthropologie et Sociétés (Épidémies et pandémies) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.
Keywords Symposium
2020 Keywords Symposium Jennifer C. Nash (bio), Samantha Pinto (bio), Marisol LeBrón (bio), Monica L. Miller (bio), Ann Cvetkovich (bio), Julie Livingston (bio), Psyche Williams-Forson (bio), Ruha Benjamin (bio), Christina Hanhardt (bio), Harris Solomon (bio), Neelima Navuluri (bio), Charles W. Hargett (bio), Peter S. Kussin (bio), Noémi Tousignant (bio), Joshua Chambers-Letson (bio), Tiana Reid (bio), Miriam Posner (bio), Racquel Gates, Sari Alt…
Residual unprotection
In the early 1960s, a potentially carcinogenic substance, aflatoxin, was identified in peanuts. In this article, I explore how aflatoxin was known – and unknown – through and for the infrastructures designed, from the late nineteenth century, to stimulate and support peanut farming in Senegal. Anticipated European standards stimulated a narrow field of knowledge and know-how oriented towards control-for-export, bypassing Senegalese farms, food, a…
Research As Development
Book forum on 'Research as Development
Vectoral Fieldsites
English Abstract: The Niakhar area of West-Central Senegal has hosted regular demographic data collection as well as health and social scientific research since the 1960s. In this article, I approach Niakhar's long history of research as a window into changing relations between knowledge production and modes (and scales) of government. Through close examination of three studies conducted between 1962 and 1974, I seek in particular to capture how …
Toxic residues of Senegal's peanut economy
Exported peanuts have been a key source of state revenue and rural incomes in Senegal since the early 20th century. Senegal has among the world's highest rates of liver cancer incidence. From the 1960s, aflatoxin - the toxic metabolite of fungal strains to which peanut plants are vulnerable - was suspected to be a cause of this cancer. Aflatoxin has since been classified and, in markets that import Senegalese peanuts, regulated as a carcinogen. T…
Beyond realism
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
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…
African Futures
"African Futures: Essays on Crisis, Emergence and Possibility." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 52(3), pp. 409–411
Capacity as history and horizon
The Values of Versatility
Colonial pharmacists bio-prospected, acclimatized, chemically screened, and tinkered with plants and their parts, hoping to create products to supply colonial public health care, metropolitan industries, and imperial markets. This article's approach is to examine the trajectories of expertise of two French colonial pharmacists, Franck Guichard and Joseph Kerharo, to illuminate the history of modern medicinal plant research. Both men studied medic…
Keith Wailoo, Pain
From the second half of the twentieth century, scholars and scientists alike sought to capture the reality of pain as more than a matter of sensory physiology. Often citing each other, anthropologists and anesthesiologists, psychologists and historians have written about how social relations and norms modulate experiences and expressions of pain. The politics of pain have attracted less attention. Of course, there are astute analyses of the repre…
Introduction
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 co…
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. Thésards 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, thésards regretfully leave the thesis behind. This article…
Insects-as-Infrastructure
Infrastructure, as a potential legacy of transnational scientific collaborations, is usually seen as extrinsic to the immediate production of knowledge. But cumulative collaborative scientific work—what scientists actually do together; the ways in which they act on the world and transform our understanding of it—can also help create durable enabling environments for ongoing scientific practice. Project Locustox began in 1989 as a pilot to evaluat…
Broken tempos
Focusing on the Laboratory of Toxicology and Analytical Chemistry of the Faculty of Pharmacy at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Senegal, this article foregrounds temporality as a key dimension of the postcolonial history of African science. This laboratory, like many others across Africa, is experienced by its current and former members as a space of shortage. I explore how memories of ‘means’ and past scientific activity in Dakar and abroad give …
Knowing Insects
The social analysis of insects has challenged our concepts of sociability, intentionality and language, while investigations of their habitats have informed how we construct and manage public space. Including entomological expertise, insect knowledge has been integral to the expansion of empire, the emergence of secular science, and in the managerial revolution that linked technology to agricultural improvement. Reading insects as hosts, vectors …
Trypanosomes, Toxicity and Resistance
Drug toxicity and resistance were prominent topics in the annual reports of the Service Autonome General de la Maladie du Sommeil (SAGMS), the sleeping sickness service that operated in French West Africa (AOF) from 1939 to 1944. This article closely examines the expression and meaning of the reports' vigilance to unintended drug effects. Reading these reports alongside the scholarly literature on French colonial public health as well as hagiogra…
The Rise and Fall of the Dolorimeter
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. Beecher's clinical trial methodology. To explain both the initia…
Broken tempos
Focusing on the Laboratory of Toxicology and Analytical Chemistry of the Faculty of Pharmacy at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Senegal, this article foregrounds temporality as a key dimension of the postcolonial history of African science. This laboratory, like many others across Africa, is experienced by its current and former members as a space of shortage. I explore how memories of ‘means’ and past scientific activity in Dakar and abroad give …
Knowing Insects
The social analysis of insects has challenged our concepts of sociability, intentionality and language, while investigations of their habitats have informed how we construct and manage public space. Including entomological expertise, insect knowledge has been integral to the expansion of empire, the emergence of secular science, and in the managerial revolution that linked technology to agricultural improvement. Reading insects as hosts, vectors …
Beyond realism
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Values of Versatility
Colonial pharmacists bio-prospected, acclimatized, chemically screened, and tinkered with plants and their parts, hoping to create products to supply colonial public health care, metropolitan industries, and imperial markets. This article's approach is to examine the trajectories of expertise of two French colonial pharmacists, Franck Guichard and Joseph Kerharo, to illuminate the history of modern medicinal plant research. Both men studied medic…
Insects-as-Infrastructure
Infrastructure, as a potential legacy of transnational scientific collaborations, is usually seen as extrinsic to the immediate production of knowledge. But cumulative collaborative scientific work—what scientists actually do together; the ways in which they act on the world and transform our understanding of it—can also help create durable enabling environments for ongoing scientific practice. Project Locustox began in 1989 as a pilot to evaluat…
Residual unprotection
In the early 1960s, a potentially carcinogenic substance, aflatoxin, was identified in peanuts. In this article, I explore how aflatoxin was known – and unknown – through and for the infrastructures designed, from the late nineteenth century, to stimulate and support peanut farming in Senegal. Anticipated European standards stimulated a narrow field of knowledge and know-how oriented towards control-for-export, bypassing Senegalese farms, food, a…
Trypanosomes, Toxicity and Resistance
Drug toxicity and resistance were prominent topics in the annual reports of the Service Autonome General de la Maladie du Sommeil (SAGMS), the sleeping sickness service that operated in French West Africa (AOF) from 1939 to 1944. This article closely examines the expression and meaning of the reports' vigilance to unintended drug effects. Reading these reports alongside the scholarly literature on French colonial public health as well as hagiogra…
The Rise and Fall of the Dolorimeter
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. Beecher's clinical trial methodology. To explain both the initia…
Trypanosomes, Toxicity and Resistance
Drug toxicity and resistance were prominent topics in the annual reports of the Service Autonome General de la Maladie du Sommeil (SAGMS), the sleeping sickness service that operated in French West Africa (AOF) from 1939 to 1944. This article closely examines the expression and meaning of the reports' vigilance to unintended drug effects. Reading these reports alongside the scholarly literature on French colonial public health as well as hagiogra…
Introduction
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 co…
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. Thésards 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, thésards regretfully leave the thesis behind. This article…
Insects-as-Infrastructure
Infrastructure, as a potential legacy of transnational scientific collaborations, is usually seen as extrinsic to the immediate production of knowledge. But cumulative collaborative scientific work—what scientists actually do together; the ways in which they act on the world and transform our understanding of it—can also help create durable enabling environments for ongoing scientific practice. Project Locustox began in 1989 as a pilot to evaluat…
Broken tempos
Focusing on the Laboratory of Toxicology and Analytical Chemistry of the Faculty of Pharmacy at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Senegal, this article foregrounds temporality as a key dimension of the postcolonial history of African science. This laboratory, like many others across Africa, is experienced by its current and former members as a space of shortage. I explore how memories of ‘means’ and past scientific activity in Dakar and abroad give …
Knowing Insects
The social analysis of insects has challenged our concepts of sociability, intentionality and language, while investigations of their habitats have informed how we construct and manage public space. Including entomological expertise, insect knowledge has been integral to the expansion of empire, the emergence of secular science, and in the managerial revolution that linked technology to agricultural improvement. Reading insects as hosts, vectors …
Keith Wailoo, Pain
From the second half of the twentieth century, scholars and scientists alike sought to capture the reality of pain as more than a matter of sensory physiology. Often citing each other, anthropologists and anesthesiologists, psychologists and historians have written about how social relations and norms modulate experiences and expressions of pain. The politics of pain have attracted less attention. Of course, there are astute analyses of the repre…
Capacity as history and horizon
The Values of Versatility
Colonial pharmacists bio-prospected, acclimatized, chemically screened, and tinkered with plants and their parts, hoping to create products to supply colonial public health care, metropolitan industries, and imperial markets. This article's approach is to examine the trajectories of expertise of two French colonial pharmacists, Franck Guichard and Joseph Kerharo, to illuminate the history of modern medicinal plant research. Both men studied medic…
African Futures
"African Futures: Essays on Crisis, Emergence and Possibility." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 52(3), pp. 409–411
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…
Toxic residues of Senegal's peanut economy
Exported peanuts have been a key source of state revenue and rural incomes in Senegal since the early 20th century. Senegal has among the world's highest rates of liver cancer incidence. From the 1960s, aflatoxin - the toxic metabolite of fungal strains to which peanut plants are vulnerable - was suspected to be a cause of this cancer. Aflatoxin has since been classified and, in markets that import Senegalese peanuts, regulated as a carcinogen. T…
Beyond realism
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Keywords Symposium
2020 Keywords Symposium Jennifer C. Nash (bio), Samantha Pinto (bio), Marisol LeBrón (bio), Monica L. Miller (bio), Ann Cvetkovich (bio), Julie Livingston (bio), Psyche Williams-Forson (bio), Ruha Benjamin (bio), Christina Hanhardt (bio), Harris Solomon (bio), Neelima Navuluri (bio), Charles W. Hargett (bio), Peter S. Kussin (bio), Noémi Tousignant (bio), Joshua Chambers-Letson (bio), Tiana Reid (bio), Miriam Posner (bio), Racquel Gates, Sari Alt…
Residual unprotection
In the early 1960s, a potentially carcinogenic substance, aflatoxin, was identified in peanuts. In this article, I explore how aflatoxin was known – and unknown – through and for the infrastructures designed, from the late nineteenth century, to stimulate and support peanut farming in Senegal. Anticipated European standards stimulated a narrow field of knowledge and know-how oriented towards control-for-export, bypassing Senegalese farms, food, a…
Research As Development
Book forum on 'Research as Development
Vectoral Fieldsites
English Abstract: The Niakhar area of West-Central Senegal has hosted regular demographic data collection as well as health and social scientific research since the 1960s. In this article, I approach Niakhar's long history of research as a window into changing relations between knowledge production and modes (and scales) of government. Through close examination of three studies conducted between 1962 and 1974, I seek in particular to capture how …
Somparé Abdoulaye Wotem, 2020, L’énigme d’Ebola en Guinée. Une étude socio‐anthropologique des réticences. Paris, L’Harmattan, coll. « Études africaines », série « Santé », 272 p., bibliogr.
Somparé Abdoulaye Wotem, 2020, L’énigme d’Ebola en Guinée. Une étude socio‐anthropologique des réticences. Paris, L’Harmattan, coll. « Études africaines », série « Santé », 272 p., bibliogr.. Un article de la revue Anthropologie et Sociétés (Épidémies et pandémies) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.
The Politics of Scheduling
Vaccination schedules negotiate the timing of interactions among bodies, vaccines, and pathogens. Yet they do more: they orchestrate the movement of vaccines through factories, business plans, injecting devices, fridges, vehicles, healthcare labour, kinship relations, policy models, government budgets, and so on. This article approaches vaccine schedules as standards that synchronise the varying entities – and interests animating these – that mak…
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