Antibiotics are a routine part of everyday life in many contexts, contributing to the development antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Our ethnographic research documents ways that antibiotics have become key for precariously employed urban day-wage workers living large informal settlement Kampala, Uganda. We found people, their daily work and ongoing health was entangled with antibiotic use; is, pe...

THE 1959 Mental Health Act emphasises the need to integrate psychiatric patients with the community at large rather than to isolate them from it, as hitherto. This identification with the normal community has been the Ministry of Labour's approach to the employment of disabled people since the time of the Disabled Persons (Employment) <4ct of 1944. For the past 17 years all disabled people, whe...