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Author: Julie Livingston
ISBN : B00CJRI2VG
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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.
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- File Size: 1256 KB
- Print Length: 246 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 082235327X
- Publisher: Duke University Press Books; 1 edition (August 1, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00CJRI2VG
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #217,770 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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in Books > History > Africa > Botswana - #26
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > History > Africa > Southern Africa - #56
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Professional & Technical > Medical eBooks > Internal Medicine > Oncology
Free Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic
"Improvising Medicine" is an insightful, deeply touching book about cancer, life, laughter and humanity. This is not a story of heroic doctors finding innovative 'solutions' to 'African' health problems, it is about people facing disease, pain and uncertainty in ways that are universal and individual.
By John Snow
This was an incredibly moving book that was difficult to read in parts, but also tremendously touching and human. I feel like I have a better understanding of the strength of the human spirit but also the debilitating toll to the body that cancer can take. I never knew that it was the rot and shame of cancer that caused generations ahead of mine to whisper "The Big C" but now I get it. I also appreciated how beautifully human and even funny the retelling of events and personal stories were by this talented author.
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