Beyond the Orthodoxies of Decolonial Standpoints: Medicine, Biography, and African Agency
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| Title: | Beyond the Orthodoxies of Decolonial Standpoints: Medicine, Biography, and African Agency |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Jonathan D. Jansen |
| Source: | Comparative Education. 2025 61(3):337-353. |
| Availability: | Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 17 |
| Publication Date: | 2025 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Descriptive |
| Descriptors: | Decolonization, Medicine, Poverty, Heart Disorders, Foreign Countries, Scientists, Medical Research, Global Approach, Developing Nations, Indigenous Knowledge, Technology Transfer |
| Geographic Terms: | South Africa |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03050068.2025.2463804 |
| ISSN: | 0305-0068 1360-0486 |
| Abstract: | Using the method of medical biography, this article challenges some of the more treasured decolonial viewpoints on knowledge production in and from the global South. The biography in question concerns one of the leading cardiovascular scientists in the world with roots in South Africa, but whose breakthrough studies in medicine significantly altered global understandings of the relationship between poverty and heart disease. In composing the biography, the findings point to the influence of African "agency" in global medical science research, the power of global North/South research "partnerships" in a multipolar world and refute the notion that inequalities of resources mean inequalities in knowledge production on the part of medical (and indeed social) scientists in Africa. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2025 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1485464 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | Using the method of medical biography, this article challenges some of the more treasured decolonial viewpoints on knowledge production in and from the global South. The biography in question concerns one of the leading cardiovascular scientists in the world with roots in South Africa, but whose breakthrough studies in medicine significantly altered global understandings of the relationship between poverty and heart disease. In composing the biography, the findings point to the influence of African "agency" in global medical science research, the power of global North/South research "partnerships" in a multipolar world and refute the notion that inequalities of resources mean inequalities in knowledge production on the part of medical (and indeed social) scientists in Africa. |
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| ISSN: | 0305-0068 1360-0486 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03050068.2025.2463804 |
