L48 Anthro 3283 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Salbutamol, National Institutes Of Health, Medical Anthropology
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A salvage ethnography of the guinea worm - amy moran-thomas (case study) Went to ghana, to do ethnography on this. Jimmy carter"s guinea-worm eradication campaign in ghana in the late-1980s eradicated in ghana in 2011: main campaign to eradicate this. Problematic aspects of local fit cultural difference as they relate to intervention. Guinea worm larvae are found in water; so get it by drinking it. Can have water purification systems, have alternate sources of water, could treat people if they have it; no vaccine or cure, just removing worm from body. Campaign focused on water straws; intervention straw filters the water. But low levels of uptake (not many people used it) Cultural interpretation of worms as implanted in blood at birth via ancestors or witches therefore needing ritual healing locals thought source of witch craft. People living there were accustomed to living with the worm; not deathly; a little painful;
