Improvising Medicine : An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic /

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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"--Publisher's descri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Livingston, Julie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Princess Marina Hospital.
Antropologi.
Sjukvård.
Cancer.
Oncology > Botswana.
Cancer > Treatment > Botswana.
Cancer > Botswana.
Oncology.
Cancer > Treatment.
Health and Fitness.
Cancerologie.
Cancerologie > Botswana.
Cancer > Traitement > Botswana.
Medical Oncology
Neoplasms > therapy
Oncology Service, Hospital
Botswana.
Botswana
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The other cancer ward
  • Neoplastic Africa : mapping circuits of toxicity and knowledge
  • Creating and embedding cancer in Botswana's oncology ward
  • Interlude: Amputation day at Princess Marina Hospital
  • The moral intimacies of care
  • Pain and laughter
  • After ARVs, during cancer, before death
  • Epilogue: Changing wards, further improvisations.

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