PHARMACY, MONEY AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN DAKAR.

IF 1.2 3区 社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY
Africa Pub Date : 2013-11-01 DOI:10.1017/S0001972013000454
Noémi Tousignant
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Abstract

Pharmacy students at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar must research and write a thesis to graduate. Thésards who took topics in analytical chemistry and toxicology describe their thesis work as a temporary opportunity to perform 'street-level' public health research that they regard as 'relevant' to the quality of people's lives. Expecting futures in the private commercial sector, thésards regretfully leave the thesis behind. This article explores the parenthetical nature of this moment - its brief openings and more durable closures - as part of the history of ways of being a pharmacist in post-colonial Senegal. The thesis as an interlude in students' biographies, curtailed by narrowed horizons of expectation, evokes other contractions: in the range of professional roles open to Senegalese pharmacists, and in the circuits of public health with which they might engage. For thésards, fieldwork, government work and commercial work entail spatial practices and imaginations; different ways of moving around the city and of tracing urban space that define pharmacists' roles in terms of the modes through which they engage with broader collectivities. Mapping thésards' parenthesis in Dakar is a means of capturing both their urban experience of work and the intertwining spatial, temporal and affective dimensions associated with this work. The past, probable and possible trajectories of pharmacy work are imprinted and imagined in the space of the city as field, market and polis. Pharmacists' prospects and aspirations are caught up in broader shifts in how education, (un)employment and entrepreneurship animate relations of association and exchange in Senegal.

达喀尔的药房、金钱和公共卫生。
达喀尔谢赫·安塔·迪奥普大学药学专业的学生必须进行研究并写一篇论文才能毕业。选修分析化学和毒理学课题的thsamsds将他们的论文工作描述为进行“街头水平”公共卫生研究的临时机会,他们认为这与人们的生活质量“相关”。期望在私营商业部门的未来,他们遗憾地把论文抛在了后面。这篇文章探讨了这一时刻的插话性质——它短暂的开始和更持久的结束——作为后殖民时期塞内加尔药剂师生活方式的一部分。这篇论文作为学生传记中的一段插曲,被狭隘的期望视野所限制,引发了其他收缩:在塞内加尔药剂师开放的专业角色范围内,以及在他们可能参与的公共卫生回路中。对他们来说,野外工作、政府工作和商业工作需要空间实践和想象力;在城市中移动的不同方式以及追踪城市空间的不同方式定义了药剂师的角色,通过这些角色他们参与更广泛的集体活动。在达喀尔绘制他们的圆点是一种捕捉他们的城市工作经验以及与这项工作相关的空间、时间和情感维度的方法。药房工作的过去、可能和可能的轨迹被烙印和想象在田野、市场和城邦的城市空间中。在塞内加尔,教育、(非)就业和创业如何推动结社和交流关系方面,药剂师的前景和愿望受到了更广泛的影响。
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Africa
Africa Multiple-
CiteScore
2.40
自引率
8.30%
发文量
51
期刊介绍: Africa is the premier journal devoted to the study of African societies and culture. Editorial policy encourages an interdisciplinary approach, involving humanities, social sciences, and environmental sciences. Africa aims to give increased attention to African production of knowledge, highlighting the work of local African thinkers and writers, emerging social and cultural trends ''on the ground'', and links between local and national levels of society. At the same time, it maintains its commitment to the theoretically informed analysis of the realities of Africa''s own cultural categories. Each issue contains six or seven major articles, arranged thematically, extensive review essays and substantial book reviews. Special issues are published annually.
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