عنوان

Rumours and riots :

شماره

TLets573603

عنوان اصلي

Rumours and riots :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Hastings, Julie Dawn

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

local responses to mass drug administration for the treatment of neglected tropical diseases among school-aged children in Morogoro region, Tanzania

نام ساير پديدآوران

Parker, M.

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brunel University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2013

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Brunel University

امتياز متن

2013

متن يادداشت

In August 2008, a biomedical intervention providing free drugs to school aged children to treat two endemic diseases -schistosomiasis haematobium and soil-transmitted helminths - in Morogoro region, Tanzania, was suspended after violent riots erupted. Parents and guardians rushed to schools to prevent their children taking the drugs when they heard reports of children dying in Morogoro town after receiving treatment. When pupils heard these reports, many of those who had swallowed the pills began to complain of dizziness and fainted. In Morogoro town hundreds of pupils were rushed to the Regional Hospital by their parents and other onlookers. News of these apparent fatalities spread throughout the region, including to Doma village where I was conducting fieldwork. Here, protesting villagers accused me of bringing the medicine into the village with which to "poison" the children and it was necessary for me to leave the village immediately under the protection of the Tanzanian police. This thesis, based on eleven months fieldwork between 2007 and 2010 in Doma village and parts of Morogoro town, asks why was this biomedical intervention so vehemently rejected? By analysing local understandings and responses to the mass distribution of drugs in relation to the specific historical, social, political, and economic context in which it occurred, it shows that there was a considerable disjuncture between biomedical understandings of these diseases, including the epidemiological rationale for the provision of preventive chemotherapy, and local perspectives. Such a disjuncture, fuelled by the reports of fatalities and the pupil's fainting episodes brought about considerable conjecture both locally and nationally, that the drugs had been faulty, counterfeit, or hitherto untested on humans. Among many of the poorer inhabitants of Morogoro town, there was suspicion that this had been a covert sterilization campaign. From an official perspective, such conjecture was dismissed as mere rumour, proliferated by "ignorant" people. However, from an anthropological perspective, these 'rumours' reveal profound local anxieties including a pervasive fear that poor Africans are being targeted for covert eugenics projects by governments in the industrialized world. The thesis also shows that many of the assumptions embedded in global policies seeking to control neglected tropical diseases are mistaken. Indeed, it is suggested that it is unlikely that schistosomiasis haematobium and soil-transmitted helminths will be controlled so long as policy makers persist with the idea that one policy, designed by staff working for the World Health Organisation - with minor modifications added in Dar es Salaam - can be rolled out uniformly, irrespective of the political, social and economic context in which the programme occurs.

موضوع مستند نشده

Global health

موضوع مستند نشده

Medical anthropology

موضوع مستند نشده

Politics of reproduction

موضوع مستند نشده

Sterility fears

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Hastings, Julie Dawn

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Parker, M.

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Brunel University

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y