Life at a Distance : Medicine and Nationalism in India's Pan-African E-Network

Name: Life at a Distance : Medicine and Nationalism in India's Pan-African E-Network
Brand: Cornell University Press

Cornell University Press

Life at a DistanceMedicine and Nationalism in India's Pan-African E-Network\nAuthor(s): Vincent Duclos\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9781501782060, 978-1501782060\nSynopsis\nIn Life at a Distance, Vincent Duclos recounts the story of the Pan-African e-Network. Branded as \""India's gift to the world,\"" and as a \""shining example of South-South cooperation,\"" the Pan-African e-Network was an exceptionally ambitious project. Between 2009 and 2017 the network used satellite technology to connect hospitals across Africa with hospitals in India, providing medical education and delivering health care for patients at a distance. Duclos shows how, by accelerating the flow of expertise across continents, the network also created connected enclaves, at once commercial, infrastructural, and medical. Life at a Distance is the story of a project that, Duclos suggests, acted as a medium for speculation about the f.