Putting Anthropology into Global Health: A Century of Anti-Human African Trypanosomiasis Campaigns in Angola

This analysis of over a century of public health campaigns against human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) in Angola aims to unravel the role of (utopian) dreams in global health. Attention to the emergence and use of concepts such as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and ideas about elim...

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Published inAnthropology in action (London, England : 1994) Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 31 - 41
Main Authors Varanda, Jorge, Theophile, Josenando
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Berghahn Books, Inc 22.03.2019
Subjects
20th century
Analysis
Anthropology
Campaigns
Colonialism
Disease
Disease eradication
Dreams
Elimination
Epidemics
Eradication
Global health
Health services
Illnesses
Independence
Politics
Power
Public health
R&D
Research & development
Sleeping sickness
Tropical diseases
Trypanosomiasis
Utopias
World health
United Kingdom
Portugal
Angola
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Summary:This analysis of over a century of public health campaigns against human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) in Angola aims to unravel the role of (utopian) dreams in global health. Attention to the emergence and use of concepts such as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and ideas about elimination or eradication highlights how these concepts and utopian dreams are instrumental for the advancement of particular agendas in an ever-shifting field of global health. The article shows how specific representations of the elimination and eradication of diseases, framed over a century ago, continue to push Western views and politics of care onto others. This analysis generates insight into how global health and its politics of power functioned in Angola during colonialism and post-independence.
ISSN:0967-201X
1752-2285
DOI:10.3167/aia.2019.260104