ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how neoliberalism is experienced by ordinary villagers, as well as by civil servants, doctors, nurses, and administrators of the public health system. Domaayo residents, such as Oumarou and Daada Abba, express their distress about the way in which medicine is currently distributed in Cameroon. They feel neglected and mistreated by a state that continues to take but no longer gives as it once did. The chapter provides an ethnographic account of Domaayo's medical system in the 1990s, and includes a brief overview of medical pluralism and how the Fulbe people approach medicine based on their own understandings of disease. The economic crisis, multiparty politics, and the financial institutions that became the architects of structural adjustment are then examined in turn. Finally, the chapter examines the neoliberal health policies, in theory and practice, as viewed by public health workers.
