Your Pocket Is What Cures You

摘要: In the wake of structural adjustment programs in 1980s and health reforms 1990s, majority sub-Saharan African governments spend less than $10 per capita on annually, many Africans have limited access to basic medical care. Using a community-level approach, anthropologist Ellen E. Foley analyzes implementation global policies how they become intertwined with existing social political inequalities Senegal. Your Pocket Is What Cures You examines qualitative shifts healing spurred by these reforms, dilemmas create for professionals patients alike. It also explores cultural frameworks, particularly those stemming from Islam Wolof ethnomedicine, are central understanding people manage vulnerability ill health. While offering critique neoliberal policies, remains grounded ethnography highlight struggles men women who precariously balanced twin precipices crumbling systems economic decline. Their stories demonstrate what happens when market-based collide material, political, realities societies.