Stacey Langwick

Selected Articles and Essays

  • Forthcoming. “Isale’s Story.”
  • Co-authored with Mary Mosha. “Groundwork for Planetary Health: Reimagining Gardens in Medical Education.” In John Nott and Anna Harris, eds., Making Sense of Medicine: Material Culture and the Reproduction of Medical Knowledge. Bristol, UK and Chicago, USA: Intellect.
  • “Properties of (Dis)Possession: Therapeutic Plants, Intellectual Property, and Questions of Justice in Tanzania.” Special issue on Therapeutic Properties: Global Medical Cultures, Knowledge, and Law, edited by Helen Tilley. Osiris 36: 284–305.
  • “A Politics of Habitability: Plants, Healing and Sovereignty in a Toxic World.” Cultural Anthropology 33(3): 415–443.
  • “Healing in the Anthropocene.” In Keiichi Omura, Atsuro Morita, Shiho Satsuka, and Grant Jun Otsuki, eds., The World Multiple: Politics of Knowing and Generating Entangled Worlds. Routledge.
  • “Cultivating Vitality: A Photo Essay.” Anthropology News website, January 24.
  • “The Value of Secrets: Pragmatic Healers and Proprietary Knowledge.” In William Olsen and Carolyn Sargent, eds., African Medical Pluralism. Indiana University Press, pp. 31–49.
  • Liwa, A., R. Roediger, H. Jaka, A. Bougaila, L. Smart, S. Langwick, and R. Peck. “Herbal and Alternative Medicine Use in Tanzanian Adults Admitted with Hypertension-related Diseases: A Mixed-methods Study.” International Journal of Hypertension 3: 1–9.
  • “Partial Publics: The Political Promise of Traditional Medicine in Africa.” Current Anthropology 63(4), August, with commentaries by Rajshree Chandra, Rosemary Coombe, Ruth Prince, Noelle Sullivan, and Claire Wendland.
  • “The Choreography of Global Subjection: The Traditional Birth Attendant in Contemporary Configurations of World Health.” In Dilger, Kane, and Langwick, eds., Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing. Indiana University Press.
  • “Introduction.” Transnational Medicine, Mobile Experts: Globalization, Health and Power In & Beyond Africa. Co-written with Hansjoerg Dilger and Abdoulaye Kane. In Dilger, Kane, and Langwick, eds., Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing. Indiana University Press.
  • 2011 hardcover / 2017 paperback. “Healers and Scientists: The Epistemological Politics of Research about Medicinal Plants in Tanzania, or ‘Moving Away from Traditional Medicine.’” In Geissler and Molyneux, eds., Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa. Berghahn Books, pp. 263–295.
  • “From Non-Aligned Medicines to Market-based Herbals: China’s Relationship to the Shifting Politics of Traditional Medicine in Tanzania.” Medical Anthropology 29(1): 1–29.
  • “Articulate(d) Bodies: Traditional Medicine in a Tanzanian Hospital.” American Ethnologist 35(3): 428–439.
  • “Devils, Parasites and Fierce Needles: Healing and the Politics of Translation in Southeastern Tanzania.” Science, Technology and Human Values 32(1): 88–117.
  • “Geographies of Medicine: Interrogating the Boundary between ‘Traditional’ and ‘Modern’ Medicine in Colonial Tanganyika.” In Tracy J. Luedke and Harry G. West, eds., Borders and Healers: Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa. Indiana University Press, pp. 143–165.

Curricula

  • Forthcoming. Tiba Lishe: Eating Well Modules 1–4.
  • Foshee, V., F. Linder, K. Bauman, S. Langwick, S. Arriaga, J. Heath, and K. Bangdiwala. “The Safe Dates Project: Theoretical Basis, Evaluation Design, and Selected Baseline Findings.” American Journal of Preventive Medicine 12(3): 39–47.