Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda.
Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Med Anthropol. 2022 May-Jun;41(4):418-430. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2022.2047676. Epub 2022 Mar 24.
The ways in which dimensions of health and healthcare intersect with economics and politics in particular contexts requires close attention. In this article we connect concerns about antibiotic overuse in Uganda to the social milieu created through policies that follow President Museveni's vision for a population who , "tap wealth." Ethnographic fieldwork in rural Eastern Uganda illustrates how taking medicines in rural households reflects a wider landscape of everyday imperatives to "tap" opportunities in a context of acute precarity. We argue for a closer connection between medical and economic anthropology to push forward understanding of health, medicines and wellbeing in Africa.
在特定背景下，健康和医疗保健的各个方面与经济和政治相互交织的方式需要密切关注。在本文中，我们将乌干达过度使用抗生素的问题与通过政策创造的社会环境联系起来，这些政策遵循穆塞韦尼总统的愿景，即让人们“挖掘财富”。在乌干达东部农村地区进行的民族志实地考察说明了在一个极度不稳定的环境中，农村家庭如何通过服用药物来反映日常生活中更广泛的“挖掘”机会的必要性。我们主张医学人类学和经济人类学之间更紧密的联系，以推动对非洲健康、药品和福祉的理解。
