(Read download) Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic
▲ Julie Livingston ▲
| #56834 in Books | imusti | 2012-08-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .60 x6.10 x9.20l,.75 | File Name: 0822353423 | 248 pages | Duke University Press
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A Much-Needed Account of Medicine in the Global South|By RDD|In "Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic", Julie Livingston argues, “First, improvisation is a defining feature of biomedicine in Africa…Second, though cancer produces moments and states of profound loneliness for patients, serious illness, pain, disfigurement, an||
“Improvising Medicine is a luminous book by a highly respected Africanist whose work creatively bridges anthropology and history. A product of intense listening and observation, deep care, and superb analytical work, it will become a canonic
In Improvising Medicine, Julie Livingston tells the story of Botswana's only dedicated cancer ward, located in its capital city of Gaborone. This affecting ethnography follows patients, their relatives, and ward staff as a cancer epidemic emerged in Botswana. The epidemic is part of an ongoing surge in cancers across the global south; the stories of Botswana's oncology ward dramatize the human stakes and intellectual and institutional challenges of an epidem... [PDF.st34] Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic Rating: 3.80 (604 Votes)
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