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Ethnographies of Infectious Diseases EH lecture on 8.11.2002 Notes on malaria • Mostly, non-medical anthropologists research this field • biomedical disease concpets do not stand 1:1 with indigenous classifications • All scholarly traditions recognise malaria, easy to correlate with biomedicine becuase of the easy recognisable fever Malaria in Tansania • Many kinds of M: sore, lethargic feeling, no fever can be malaria • cerebral malaria is often not recognised as malaria because of convulsions. • Anaemia is related to malaria but often not recognised • “tropical disease” label is a sign of naturalisation of social causes, disease of poverty