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Humans , Male , Adult , Schistosomiasis haematobia/drug therapy , Schistosomiasis haematobia/etiology , Hematuria/complications , Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic/complications , Schistosomiasis haematobia/diagnostic imaging , Hematuria/parasitology , Necator americanus/parasitology , Trichuris/parasitology , Albendazole/therapeutic use , Praziquantel/therapeutic useABSTRACT
The earliest programs of the Rockefeller Foundation's International Health Commission - IHC were pilot projects for the treatment of hookworm disease in the British colonies of British Guiana and Trinidad. These pioneering ventures into international health have often been portrayed as governed by rigid biomedical principles. In contrast to this view, the article emphasizes the degree to which the exigencies of a public health project that sought to make biomedicine intelligible within the medical systems of subject populations combined with the knowledge of local IHC staff members of Indo-Caribbean descent to generate some fascinating experiments in ethno-medical translation. One term in particular "The Demon that Turned into Worms" is focused on to show how these efforts at medical translation may have legitimized and promoted medical pluralism.
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Global Health , Hookworm Infections , International Agencies , International Cooperation , Public Health , Animals , Anthropology, Cultural/history , Anthropology, Cultural/methods , Ethnicity/ethnology , Ethnicity/history , Guyana/epidemiology , Guyana/ethnology , History, 20th Century , Hookworm Infections/history , Hookworm Infections/prevention & control , Humans , International Agencies/history , International Cooperation/history , Medicine, Traditional/history , Necator americanus/parasitology , Public Health/history , Public Health/methods , Trinidad and Tobago/epidemiology , Trinidad and Tobago/ethnologyABSTRACT
Fifty clinically anaemic children aged 6-9 years old were selected in the Bo; Southern Province; Sierra Leone during April 1990. All had their stools examined for stages of intestinal helminth infections. Twenty-one were judged to be positive for hookworm on the detection of eggs in stools. After treatment with lavemisole; 48 hour stool collections were performed on 15 of the heavily infected children. Adult hookworms were isolated from the specimens of 7 individuals; and preserved in 10 per cent aqueous formalin solution. the worms were later examined microscopically and shown to possess ventral cutting plates; fused and bared spicules; and a bifid nature of the tips of the dorsal rays of the male bursa; confirming their identification as necator americanus
