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Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic
Taschenbuch von Julie Livingston
Sprache: Englisch

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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 epidemic that will shape the future of global health. They convey the contingencies of high-tech medicine in a hospital where vital machines are often broken, drugs go in and out of stock, and bed-space is always at a premium. They also reveal cancer as something that happens between people. Serious illness, care, pain, disfigurement, and even death emerge as deeply social experiences. Livingston describes the cancer ward in terms of the bureaucracy, vulnerability, power, biomedical science, mortality, and hope that shape contemporary experience in southern Africa. Her ethnography is a profound reflection on the social orchestration of hope and futility in an African hospital, the politics and economics of healthcare in Africa, and palliation and disfigurement across the global south.
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 epidemic that will shape the future of global health. They convey the contingencies of high-tech medicine in a hospital where vital machines are often broken, drugs go in and out of stock, and bed-space is always at a premium. They also reveal cancer as something that happens between people. Serious illness, care, pain, disfigurement, and even death emerge as deeply social experiences. Livingston describes the cancer ward in terms of the bureaucracy, vulnerability, power, biomedical science, mortality, and hope that shape contemporary experience in southern Africa. Her ethnography is a profound reflection on the social orchestration of hope and futility in an African hospital, the politics and economics of healthcare in Africa, and palliation and disfigurement across the global south.
Über den Autor
Julie Livingston
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface ix

Acknowledgments xiii

1. The Other Cancer Ward 1

2. Neoplastic Africa: Mapping Circuits of Toxicity and Knowledge 29

3. Creating and Embedding Cancer in Botswana's Oncology Ward 52

Interlude. Amputation Day at Princess Marina Hospital 85

4. The Moral Intimacies of Care 93

5. Pain and Laughter 119

6. After ARVs, During Cancer, Before Death 152

Epilogue. Changing Wards, Further Improvisations 174

Notes 183

Bibliography 205

Index 221
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 248
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780822353423
ISBN-10: 0822353423
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Livingston, Julie
Besonderheit: Unsere Aufsteiger
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Julie Livingston
Erscheinungsdatum: 29.08.2012
Gewicht: 0,365 kg
preigu-id: 106593588
Über den Autor
Julie Livingston
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface ix

Acknowledgments xiii

1. The Other Cancer Ward 1

2. Neoplastic Africa: Mapping Circuits of Toxicity and Knowledge 29

3. Creating and Embedding Cancer in Botswana's Oncology Ward 52

Interlude. Amputation Day at Princess Marina Hospital 85

4. The Moral Intimacies of Care 93

5. Pain and Laughter 119

6. After ARVs, During Cancer, Before Death 152

Epilogue. Changing Wards, Further Improvisations 174

Notes 183

Bibliography 205

Index 221
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 248
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780822353423
ISBN-10: 0822353423
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Livingston, Julie
Besonderheit: Unsere Aufsteiger
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Julie Livingston
Erscheinungsdatum: 29.08.2012
Gewicht: 0,365 kg
preigu-id: 106593588
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