The Polio Eradication Initiative is the largest public health project in history. It is currently experiencing difficulties; the global polio case count has been holding steady since 2003. This dissertation is a multi-sited ethnography of this major global health project. It foc…
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Dracunculiasis , also referred to as Guinea worm disease (GWD), is an ancient scourge on the brink of eradication. It is contracted when humans drink water from sources infested by microcrustacean copepods harboring Guinea worm (GW) larvae. The copepods dissolve in the stomach a…