ABSTRACT
This chapter examines tuberculosis within a rural district in Ghana, where national policies appear almost entirely absent. The author traces local intervention strategies that attempt to compensate for this absence and highlights how the local health authorities understood the local meanings of TB and traditional treatment practices as the main obstacle to the usage of biomedicine and the improvement of healthcare, and in doing so point to an instrumental redefining of ‘culture’. Finally, this chapter examines how citizenship is redefined within a context where tuberculosis paradoxically ensures the rights of healthcare while denying the disease.
