Material History, Historied Materials and the Question of Epistemic Freedom in Ghana’s Medical Schools
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12211336 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Josiah Nott (0000-0001-6795-5942, Maastricht University, corresponding author), John Nott |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 116-140 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social History of Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-631X • E-ISSN: 1477-4666 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/shm/hkad039 |
| PMID | 38947279 |
| OpenAlex | W4386475409 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
Medical schools rely on a wide range of tools, technologies and materials for their teaching, on books, and bodies, and on the buildings which house them. This article considers the histories of this material culture in the three oldest medical schools operating in Ghana today. Borrowing theoretical concepts from Science and Technology Studies, medical anthropology and postcolonial political economy, this article takes that the material culture of modern medical education often binds contemporary pedagogy to outdated ideas and faraway places. The agential, proselytising nature of these historied materials agitates against the localisation of biomedicine and contributes to a distracting scientific imaginary which remains centred around historical, often imperial centres of knowledge production in Europe and North America
Epistemology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Medicine · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |