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The Plurality of Biopower in West Africa: On the Tuberculosis Project in Southern Ghana

Research Project

Project/Area Number 25884095
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Cultural anthropology
Research InstitutionNational Museum of Ethnology

Principal Investigator

HAMADA Akinori  国立民族学博物館, 先端人類科学研究部, 機関研究員 (30707253)

Project Period (FY) 2013-08-30 – 2015-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Keywords結核 / 生権力 / ドキュメント / 薬剤 / グローバルヘルス / 医療人類学 / ガーナ / 西アフリカ / 生物医療 / 統治
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research reveals the interferences of effects of biopower by illustrating several features of the tuberculosis project in Southern Ghana. First, the project focuses on the attitudes of the community health nurses who only partly engage in it, though their limited engagement is primarily due to resources deficiencies. Second, the patients’ lives and health are just as influenced by the attitudes and life plans of their family members as by project policies regarding nurses and documents. Third, because tuberculosis patients cannot fully rely on the nurses, they are subjectified in their own recoveries through a document, the Treatment Support Card. Finally, treatments’ successes as the effects of biopower depend on how the nurses and family members engage with them. Thus, there are interferences of effects of biopwer; the inadequacy of nurses’ efficacy is a precondition for the subjectification of patients and the importance of family aid.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2014 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2013 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All 2015 2014 Other

All Journal Article (5 results) (of which Open Access: 1 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results) Presentation (3 results) (of which Invited: 1 results) Book (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] 書き換えの干渉:文脈作成としての政策、適応、ミステリ2015

    • Author(s)
      浜田 明範
    • Journal Title

      一橋社会科学

      Volume: 第7巻(別冊) Pages: 125-150

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] 薬剤から見る西アフリカの医療:医療人類学の視点から2015

    • Author(s)
      浜田 明範
    • Journal Title

      THE LUNG perspectives

      Volume: vol. 23 Pages: 95-97

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] アフリカにおける薬剤の流通と副作用:ガーナ南部のカカオ農村地帯を事例として2014

    • Author(s)
      浜田 明範
    • Journal Title

      落合雄彦(編)『アフリカ・ドラッグ考:交錯する生産・取引・乱用・文化・統制』、晃洋書房

      Volume: なし Pages: 169-190

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Payment and Milieu of Mutual-Aids: The National Health Insurance Scheme and Multiple Cares in Southern Ghana2014

    • Author(s)
      Akinori HAMADA
    • Journal Title

      Mohasci Gergely (ed.), Ecologies of Care: Innovations through Technologies, Collectives and the Senses. Readings in Multicultural Innovation, Vol. 40. Doctoral Program for Multicultural Innovation.

      Volume: なし Pages: 161-177

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Medical Technology as Cultural Interface2014

    • Author(s)
      Akinori HAMADA
    • Journal Title

      Heung Wah Wong and Keiji Maegawa (eds.) Revisiting Colonial & Post-Colonial: Anthropological Studies of Cultural Interface. Los Angeles: Bridge21.

      Volume: なし Pages: 283-305

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 環境の書き換え:ガーナ南部における結核と複数の統治2014

    • Author(s)
      浜田 明範
    • Organizer
      京都人類学研究会
    • Place of Presentation
      京都大学
    • Year and Date
      2014-05-30
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Payment and Milieu of Mutual-Aids: The National Health Insurancce Scheme and Multiple Cares in Southern Ghana2014

    • Author(s)
      Akinori HAMADA
    • Organizer
      The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Inter-Congress 2014
    • Place of Presentation
      幕張メッセ
    • Year and Date
      2014-05-08
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] フィールドでただ生きているということ

    • Author(s)
      浜田 明範
    • Organizer
      現代エスノグラフィ研究会
    • Place of Presentation
      立命館大学
    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 薬剤と健康保険の人類学:ガーナ南部における生物医療をめぐって2015

    • Author(s)
      浜田 明範
    • Total Pages
      220
    • Publisher
      風響社
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2013-09-12   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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