Recent Publications

Working Paper Series

Article or Chapter

  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel (2023) "A failing anthropology of colonial failure: following a driver's uniform found at Amani research station, Tanzania." in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 29 (S1):167-189. → https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13908

Article or Chapter

  • Geissler, P. W. and N. Tousignant (2020) "Beyond realism: Africa‘s medical dreams (Introduction to Special Issue)." in Africa 90 (1): 1-17.

Article or Chapter

  • Geissler PW and A Kelly (2016) "Field station as stage: Re-enacting scientific work and life in Amani, Tanzania." in Social Studies of Science 46 (6): 912-937.

Book or Edited Volume

  • Geissler PW, G Lachenal, J Manton, N Tousignant (2016) "Traces of the Future: An Archaeology of Medical Science in Twenty First Century Africa." Bristol: Intellect.

Book or Edited Volume

  • Geissler PW (ed.) (2015) "Para-states and Medical Science: Making Global Health in Africa." Durham: Duke University Press.

Article or Chapter

  • Chantler, Tracey, Faith Otewa, Peter Onyango, Ben Okoth, Frank Odhiambo, Michael Parker, and Paul Wenzel Geissler (2013) "Ethical challenges that arise at the community interface of health research: Village reporters’ experiences in Western Kenya." in Developing World Bioethics 13 (1): 30-37.
  • Geissler, P. Wenzel (2013) "Stuck in Ruins, or up and coming? The shifting geography of urban public health research in Kisumu, Kenya." in Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 83 (4): 539-560.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel (2013) "Public secrets in public health: Knowing not to know while making scientific knowledge." in American Ethnologist 40 (1): 13-34.
  • Geissler, P. Wenzel, Ann H. Kelly, John Manton, Ruth J. Prince, and Noémi Tousignant (2013) "Introduction: Sustaining the life of the polis." in Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 83 (4): 531-538.
  • Kamuya, Dorcas M., Vicki Marsh, Francis K. Kombe, P. Wenzel Geissler, and Sassy C. Molyneux (2013) "Engaging Communities to Strengthen Research Ethics in Low-Income Settings: Selection and Perceptions of Members of a Network of Representatives in Coastal Kenya." in Developing World Bioethics 13 (1): 10-20.
  • Madiega, Philister Adhiambo, Gemma Jones, Ruth Jane Prince, and Paul Wenzel Geissler (2013) "'She's My Sister-In-Law, My Visitor, My Friend': Challenges of Staff Identity in Home Follow-Up in an HIV Trial in Western Kenya." in Developing World Bioethics 13 (1): 21-29.
  • Geissler PW (2013) "Public secrets in public health: Knowing not to know while making scientific knowledge." in American Ethnologist 40 (1): 13-34.
  • Geissler PW (2013) "Stuck in ruins, or up and coming? The shifting geography of urban health work in Kisumu, Kenya." in Africa 83 (4): 539-560.

Article or Chapter

  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel (2012) "'We are not paid - they just give us': Liberalisation and the longing for biopolitical discipline around an African HIV prevention trial." in Rethinking biomedicine and governance in Africa , edited by Paul Wenzel Geissler, Richard Rottenburg and Julia Zenker, 197-228. Bielefeld: Transcript.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel (2012) "'Transport to where?': Reflections on the problem of value and time à propos an awkward practice in medical research." in The value of transnational medical research: Labour, participation and care , edited by Ann H. Kelly and Paul Wenzel Geissler, 73-92. London: Routledge.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel, Ann H. Kelly, Babatunde Imoukhuede, and Robert Pool (2012) "Substantial transactions and an ethics of kinship in recent collaborative Malaria vaccine trials in The Gambia." in Collaborators collaborating: Counterparts in anthropological knowledge and international research relations , edited by Monica Konrad, 61-85. New York: Berghahn Books.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel, Richard Rottenburg, and Julia Zenker (2012) "21st century African biopolitics: Fuzzy fringes, cracks and undersides, neglected backwaters, and returning politics." in Rethinking biomedicine and governance in Africa , edited by Paul Wenzel Geissler, Richard Rottenburg and Julia Zenker, 7-19. Bielefeld: Transcript.
  • Kelly, Ann H., and Paul Wenzel Geissler (2012) "Investigating the ethics and economics of medical experimentation." in The value of transnational medical research: Labour, participation and care , edited by Ann H. Kelly and Paul Wenzel Geissler, 1-12. London: Routledge.

Book or Edited Volume

  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel, Richard Rottenburg, and Julia Zenker (eds.) (2012) "Rethinking biomedicine and governance in Africa." Bielefeld: Transcript.
  • Kelly, Ann H., and Paul Wenzel Geissler (eds.) (2012) "The value of transnational medical research: Labour, participation and care." London: Routledge.

Article or Chapter

  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel (2011) "Parasite lost: Remembering modern times with Kenyan government medical scientists." in Evidence, ethos and experiment: The anthropology and history of medical research in Africa , edited by Paul Wenzel Geissler and Catherine Molyneux, 207-232. New York: Berghahn Books.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel (2011) "Studying trial communities: Anthropological and historical inquiries into ethos, politics and economy of medical research in Africa." in Evidence, ethos and experiment: The anthropology and history of medical research in Africa , edited by Paul Wenzel Geissler and Catherine Molyneux, 1-28. New York: Berghahn Books.

Book or Edited Volume

  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel, and Catherine Molyneux (eds.) (2011) "Evidence, ethos and experiment: The anthropology and history of medical research in Africa." New York: Berghahn Books.
  • Geissler, PW & C Molyneux (eds.) (2011) "Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa." Oxford: Berghahn.

Article or Chapter

  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel, and Ruth J. Prince (2010) "Persons and relations in Luo plant medicines." in Plants, health and healing: On the interface of medical anthropology and ethnobotany , edited by Elisabeth Hsu and Stephen Harris, 179-224. Oxford: Berghahn.

Book or Edited Volume

  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel, and Ruth J. Prince (2010) "The Land is dying: Contingency, creativity and conflict in Western Kenya." New York: Berghahn Books.
  • Geissler, PW & RJ Prince (2010) "The Land is Dying: Creativity, Contingency and Conflict in Western Kenya." Oxford: Berghahn.

Article or Chapter

  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel, and Ruth J. Prince (2009) "Active compounds and atoms of society: Plants, bodies, minds and cultures in the work of Kenyan ethnobotanical knowledge." in Social Studies of Science 39 (4): 599-634.

Book or Edited Volume

  • Becker, Felicitas, and Paul Wenzel Geissler (eds.) (2009) "AIDS and religious practice in Africa." Leiden: Brill.