In the article, A Salvage Ethnography of the Guinea Worm by Amy Moran-Thomas whom reported her main thesis as a viewpoint about a “hard-fought health campaign against a centuries old pathogen, and the conflicting priorities and values, and laden paradoxes of humanitarianism at play as medicine breaches boundaries not normally thought of a permeable” (p.207). Moran-Thomas describes …show more content…
The second piece of evidence that Moran-Thomas utilizes is from a New York Times article in 2006 involving people in Nigeria, which describe a similar situation the author identifies. She states, “In Ghana, those who consider the worms a sign from their ancestors did not fear the parasite as a symbol of death, but an angry message from the honored dead…. a white finger from another world searing through their flesh” (p.214). As in The Beautiful Forever by Katherine Boo the villagers relate superstitious fears from the one-leg’s ghost, and her curse for their troubles. These types of perceptions caused conflict with the eradication campaign because of fears that the worms set curses from ill-intentioned person with dangerous