Nana Osei Quarshie
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Nana Osei Quarshie is Assistant Professor in the Program in the History of Science and Medicine at Yale University, where he is also affiliated with the Department of Anthropology and the Yale School of Medicine. An anthropologist and historian by training, Quarshie examines the relationship among mental healing, political expulsions, immigration, and urban belonging in West Africa since the seventeenth century. His research has been funded by the Chateaubriand Fellowship, the Social Science Research Council’s International Dissertation Research Fellowship, the University of Michigan, and Yale University. Among other venues, Quarshie’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Comparative Studies in Society and History, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Politique Africaine, Psychopathologie Africaine and Somatosphere. He is currently revising his first monograph, An African Pharmakon: Psychiatry and the Mind Politic of Modern Ghana.
- Translated and Republished as « L’expulsion en masse comme outil d’exclusion intérieure: raids de police et emprisonnement des migrants d’Afrique occidentale au Ghana, 1969–1974 » dans L’Afrique en Prisons. Édité par Frederic le Marcis et Marie Morelle. Lyon, France: ENS Editions, 2022, p. 259 – 275. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.enseditions.40895