Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgments 9
4. Abbreviations 11
5. Figures and Tables 13
6. 1. Introduction
7. Relevance of the study and literature 16
8. The need for an ecological context 18
9. Research questions 20
10. Outline of the book 22
11. 2. Malaria: A brief overview
12. Introduction 25
13. Global Perspective 27
14. The parasite’s life cycle 30
15. The interplay of humans, mosquitoes, and parasites 32
16. Malaria in numbers 34
17. Progression of the disease 40
18. Malaria testing and treatment of clinical malaria 43
19. Malaria treatment 44
20. Local understandings of malaria 45
21. Plurality of meanings, syncretic models 46
22. Perceptions of malaria: a “killer disease”? 48
23. 3. Ethnographic research in Uganda: Language and ethics in the field
24. Initial considerations 52
25. Interdisciplinary research projects and their methodological implications 54
26. Qualitative research in a foreign research setting: the issue of language 55
27. Working with an interpreter 57
28. Hiring an assistant 63
29. Doing research, constructing the field 65
30. Positionality: A German researcher in Uganda 69
31. Doing research in a health facility 74
32. 4. Kampala’s urban fringe: Socio-economic dynamics and transformations
33. Central Uganda 79
34. Infrastructure 84
35. The Namulonge Research Farm 86
36. Wetlands 88
37. Land ownership and land use 90
38. Structural adjustment: the 1998 Uganda Land Act 91
39. Colonial legacies: the introduction of mailo land 92
40. Mailo land in Namulonge 96
41. Health in local context 97
42. Health care in Uganda 97
43. 5. Providing malaria treatment: Different forms of healthcare in Uganda
44. Introduction 101
45. Self-medication and individualized conceptions of health 109
46. Mapping healthcare 112
47. Healthcare in Uganda: Historical Perspective 114
48. Formalized healthcare 117
49. Informal healthcare 119
50. 6. Coping with malaria: Facets of health seeking
51. Introduction 129
52. Costs of biomedical malaria treatment 134
53. Malaria treatment outside the biomedical arena 138
54. Peter 141
55. Gerald 146
56. Mukyala Nakakande 149
57. 7. Agriculture in the urban fringe: The ambivalent role of wetlands
58. Wetland agriculture and mosquitoes 155
59. Malaria and Agriculture 157
60. Wetlands as economic resource 160
61. Wetland mining 163
62. Fisheries 165
63. Malaria and agriculture: local perceptions 167
64. Malaria campaigns and wetland agriculture 169
65. Wetlands as a last resort 170
66. The ambivalent character of wetlands 178
67. 8. Conclusion
68. Introduction 181
69. Outlook 186
70. References 191