Keketso John Peete
Keketso John Peete is a medical anthropologist and PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand, specialising in the study of social medicines, pharmaceuticals, and global health moralities. His research operates at the intersection of the moral economy of drugs, the political economy of pharmaceuticals, and the biopolitics of life within Southern and East Africa. Keketso is a doctoral fellow within the Wellcome Trust-funded project, “What’s at Stake in the Fake?” His doctoral dissertation examines the phenomenon of pharmaceutical fake-talk in Tanzania. It offers a critical analysis of how the international discourse regarding ‘fake’ pharmaceutical drugs is used to rationalise neoliberal shifts in healthcare, often leading to the erosion of national regulatory sovereignty in favour of international pharmaceutical interests.
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Mwanga is a 27 year-old pharmaceutical technician and was one of my closest associates during my 11-month stay in Morogoro Town, Tanzania, for fieldwork. After Mwanga graduated from St Francis University College of Health and Allied Sciences, with an Ordinary Diploma in Pharmaceutical Sciences, she obtained a job at a drug shop, locally known as […]
